Arthur Snell

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The Rest Is Politics · The Secret Security Threat The Government Don’t Want Us To Know · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

I think, whilst I wouldn't argue that it's of necessity that that's how the climate crisis is communicated, there has been a tendency to do it that way.

That gives populists an easy target.

These people who don't live lives like you, they don't understand your life,

And they're telling you, you know, that you've got to redo the central heating in your house for thousands of pounds.

And it's just this sort of endless grinding sense that some anonymous, invisible group of experts has sort of set out to ruin your life.

So I think populists lean into that.

But of course, the other thing, which is perhaps slightly more profound, is that

As far as I understand it, populism is about fear.

It's about taking people's fears and turning that into a political response.

And it seems to me that the climate crisis is very useful because it is scary.

The planet is changing profoundly in ways that we don't really understand.

And it may trigger or contribute to a variety of other fearful things like millions of people moving or certain places in the world not being habitable that were before.

So all these things are fearful things.

And of course, that's a big opportunity for populist politicians.

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