Tropic of Chaos - by Christian Parenti (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>An award-winning journalist combines on-the-ground reportage with incisive analysis to reveal the disturbing connection between climate change and increased social and political violence.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state failure.</b> <p/> In <i>Tropic of Chaos</i>, 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. <p/> 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Christian Parenti</b> is a contributing editor at the <i>Nation</i>. The author of <i>Lockdown America, The Soft Cage</i>, and <i>The Freedom</i>, he has written for <i>Fortune, Mother Jones, Conde Nast Traveler, Playboy</i>, the <i>New York Times</i>, and the <i>London Review of Books</i>, among others. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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