Words by the Water

Arthur Snell: Life on a Warmer Planet

Saturday 14 March | 2:30pm

Historian and former British diplomat Arthur Snell delivers a comprehensive account of the geopolitics of climate change. Within our lifetimes, rising temperatures, sea levels and scarcity will inevitably drive conflict and mass migration globally. Natural disasters and the battle for rare minerals essential to clean energy will shake the established world order to its core. When the rain wrecks India’s ability to grow rice, the heat makes building impossible in Saudi Arabia, wildfires rage through America’s most populated regions, and huge areas of highly fertile land in Russia are exposed by the melting ice, what will living on a warmer planet actually look like?

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