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Tropic of Chaos
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Author: Christian Parenti
Title: Tropic of Chaos
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 312
Release Date: 2012-09-04
Details: 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.
EAN: 9781568587295
Package Dimensions: Height: 8.25 Inches, Length: 5.5 Inches, Weight: 0.7 Pounds, Width: 0.78 Inches
