Cleo Paskal: Global Warring

She’s allergic to alcohol and her television is broken, so it goes without saying that Cleo Paskal gets a lot of work done in life — whether it’s a BBC-Radio documentary series on the world’s smallest countries or her latest book, Global Warring: How Environmental, Economic, and Political Crises Will Redraw the World Map. For the book, Paskal opted to approach the subject of climate change from a new angle, investigating the connections between politics and the environment. “There’s that old expression, ‘Geography makes history,’ but now it seems that environmental change is remaking geography,” she says. “I wanted to look at what happens to the geo-strategic potential of a country when it disappears or when its borders are affected by a natural disaster.”During the research process, Paskal interviewed everyone from glaciologists in India to agricultural experts in Winnipeg.“I

Vanessa Farquharson