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Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence
Author(s): Christian Parenti (Author)
- Publisher: Bold Type Books
- Publication Date: 4 Sept. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 312 pages
- ISBN-10: 1568587295
- ISBN-13: 9781568587295
Book Description
From 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.
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
“A richly investigated and original account of the role climate change is already playing in contemporary conflicts. This glimpse of the future we most fear arrives just in time to change course.” -Naomi Klein, author The Shock Doctrine
About the Author
Christian Parenti is a contributing editor at the Nation. The author of Lockdown America, The Soft Cage, and The Freedom, he has written for Fortune, Mother Jones, Conde Nast traveller, Playboy, the New York Times, and the London Review of Books, among others. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
