Lauren Sneade talks to Thane Gustafson about the future of Russian oil through the climate crisis and the context of the ongoing war in Ukraine. Gustafson is a professor of political science at Georgetown University, and an author of numerous books about Russia's fossil fuel dependence, the most recent being 2021's Klimat: Russia in the Age of Climate Change.

Lauren and Professor Gustafson discuss the question: is Putin promoting a geopolitical narrative of Russian supremacy over the country’s national economic future?

Further reading

• Buy Klimat: Russian in the Age of Climate Change  from Havard University Press.
• Professor Gustafson's Substack.
• 'Russia can no longer ignore the threat posed by climate change', LSE Blog, January 2022
• Part 1 and  Part 2 of a Washington Post interview with Professor Gustafson in September 2022. 

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