Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of ViolenceFrom Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state failure. In Tropic of Chaos, investigative journalist Christian Parenti travels along the front lines of this gathering catastrophe--the belt of economically and politically battered postcolonial nations and war zones girding the planet's midlatitudes. Here he finds failed states amid climatic disasters. But he also reveals the unsettling presence of Western military forces and explains how they see an opportunity in the crisis to prepare for open-ended global counterinsurgency. Parenti argues that this incipient "climate fascism" -- a political hardening of wealthy states-- is bound to fail. The struggling states of the developing world cannot be allowed to collapse, as they will take other nations down as well. Instead, we must work to meet the challenge of climate-driven violence with a very different set of sustainable economic and development policies. |
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User Review - Stbalbach - LibraryThingThere is a good book here that's been subsumed by jargon-laden sentences that obscure rather than clarify. It's too bad as Parenti's thesis is a good one, the unfortunate reality of how climate change ... Read full review
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User Review - KirkusAn investigative journalist's tough analysis of how some of the world's most vulnerable states—those with a history of economic and political disasters—are confronting the new crisis of climate ... Read full review
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| Title | Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence |
| Author | Christian Parenti |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | PublicAffairs, 2011 |
| ISBN | 1568586620, 9781568586625 |
| Length | 304 pages |
| Subjects | › Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection |
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