Photograph: Ben Birchall/PASitting in the Guardian’s office in a blue shirt, 50-year-old Snell looks remarkably relaxed for someone describing apocalyptic scenarios. And there will be people who, tragically, will not survive the climate crisis, but most people will carry on living through it. Wildfires licking at Los Angeles; hurricanes battering Florida; summer heat cooking Texas: it’s getting harder for Americans to ignore changing climate, Snell says, with some already being refused home insurance. But although Britain’s Joint Intelligence Committee published a heavily redacted report last year on the security implications of the climate crisis, Snell thinks our planning is behind the curve. You’re talking about a crisis.’ But the crisis does force cooperation and collaboration.

Source: The Guardian March 04, 2026 19:34 UTC