Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence
San Francisco Bay Guardian“Christian Parenti offers an unusual and compelling analysis of violence through the lens of the environment….Parenti also turns a sharp eye upon the repression, surveillance, and counterinsurgency that first-world nations have employed to combat growing violence in water-scarce, conflict-ridden regions, and calls for a more enlightened approach.”Jan McGirk, ChinaDialogue.net“Tropic of Chaosis a must-read. It telegraphs an urgent message of how quickly climate catastrophe is morphing around the globe.”Astra Taylor, Bookforum (online)“[A] harrowing tour-de-force… if you read one book on climate change this year (and really, who can bear to read more than one?),Tropic of Chaosshould be it. The way you understand the changing climate, and the resulting conflicts that serrate our world, will be transformed.”