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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Parenti, Christian.     Subjects     Climatic changes -- Political aspects.     Geopolitics -- Environmental aspects.     Violence -- Environmental aspects.     Political violence -- Environmental aspects.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Parenti, Christian.       by title:      Tropic of chaos : cl...         MARC Display

Tropic of chaos : climate change and the new geography of violence / Christian Parenti. by Parenti, Christian. New York : Nation Books, c2011. Subjects Climatic changes -- Political aspects.   Geopolitics -- Environmental aspects.   Violence -- Environmental aspects.   Political violence -- Environmental aspects. ISBN:  9781568586007 (hbk.) : 1568586000 (hbk.) Description:  viii, 295 p. : maps ; 24 cm. Contents:  Pt. 1. Last call for illusion -- Who killed Ekaru Loraman? -- Military soothsayers -- War for a small planet : adaptation as counterinsurgency -- Pt. II. Africa -- Geopolitics of a cattle raid -- Monsoons and tipping points -- The rise and fall of East African states -- Somali apocalypse -- Theorizing failed states -- Pt. III. 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 -- Pt. IV. 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. Requests:  0 Summary:  Journalist Christian Parenti examines the influence of extreme weather which is caused by global warming on unrest and violence in countries located along mid-latitudes and examines how sustainable living among the world's population could solve the problems.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 304.25 Pa Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 304.25 Pa Checked In Add Copy to MyList Wahiawa Public Library Adult Nonfiction 304.25 Pa Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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