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Parenti, Christian.
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Climatic changes -- Political aspects.
Geopolitics -- Environmental aspects.
Violence -- Environmental aspects.
Political violence -- Environmental aspects.
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Tropic of chaos : cl...
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Tropic of chaos : climate change and the new geography of violence / Christian Parenti.
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Parenti, Christian.
New York : Nation Books, c2011.
Subjects
Climatic changes -- Political aspects.
Geopolitics -- Environmental aspects.
Violence -- Environmental aspects.
Political violence -- Environmental aspects.
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9781568586007 (hbk.) :
1568586000 (hbk.)
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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.
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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.
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