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Total pages original book: 312
Includes a PDF summary of 35 pages
Duration of the summary (audio): 26M33S (7 MB)
Description or summary of the audiobook: From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. 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. Here he finds failed states amid climatic disasters. 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. The struggling states of the developing world cannot be allowed to collapse, as they will take other nations down as well. Instead, we must work to meet the challenge of climate-driven violence with a very different set of sustainable economic and development policies.
Other categories, genre or collection: Human Geography, Conservation Of The Environment, Environmental Science, Engineering & Technology, Natural History Books, Social Groups, Applied Ecology