Tropic of Chaos Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence

Name: Tropic of Chaos Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence
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ISBN: 9781568587295

ISBN-10: 1568587295

ISBN-13: 9781568587295

Edition: 2012

Authors: Christian Parenti

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From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state failure.InTropic 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…

Book details

List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 9/4/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.23" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English




Last Call for Illusions



Who Killed Ekaru Loruman?



Military Soothsayers



War for a Small Planet: Adaptation As Counterinsurgency



Africa



Geopolitics of a Cattle Raid



Monsoons and Tipping Points



The Rise and Fall of East African States



Somali Apocalypse



Theorizing Failed States



Asia



Drugs, Drought, and Jihad: Environmental History of the Afghanistan War



Kyrgyzstan's Little Climate War



India and Pakistan: Glaciers, Rivers, and Unfinished Business



India's Drought Rebels



Latin America



Rio's Agony: From Extreme Weather to "Planet of Slums"



Golgotha Mexicana: Climate Refugees, Free Trade, and the War Next Door



American Walls and Demagogues



Implications and Possibilities


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index