Tropic of Chaos
Tropic of Chaos From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Here he finds failed states amid climatic disasters. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian…
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Tropic of Chaos
From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Here he finds failed states amid climatic disasters. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state failure.In Tropic of Chaos, 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.
The struggling states of the developing world cannot be allowed to collapse, as they will take other nations down as well. 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.Parenti argues that this incipient climate fascism -- a political hardening of wealthy states-- is bound to fail. Instead, we