Tropic of chaos
Subtitle: climate change and the new geography of violence
By: Christian Parenti
Publisher: Nation Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781568586007; 9781568586625
Subjects: Climatic changes; Geopolitics; Environmental aspects; Violence; Political violence; Political aspects
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt.  1. Last call for illusion; title: Who killed Ekaru Loraman; title: Military soothsayers; title: War for a small planet : adaptation as counterinsurgency; title: Pt.  II. Africa; title: Geopolitics of an east african cattle raid; title: Monsoons and tipping points; title: The rise and fall of East African states; title: Somali apocalypse; title: Theorizing failed states; title: Pt. III. Asia; title: Drugs, drought and Jihad environmental history of the afghanistan war; title: Kyrgyzstan's little climate war; title: india and pakistan glaciers, rivers, and unfinished business; title: India's drought rebels; title: Pt. IV. Latin America; title: Rio's agony : from extreme weather to "planet of slums"; title: Golgotha Mexicana : climate refugees, free trade, and the war next door; title: American walls and demagogues; title: Implications and possibilities.