Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence - Christian Parenti

Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence - Christian Parenti (2011)

I. LAST CALL FOR ILLUSIONS

Chapter 1. Who Killed Ekaru Loruman?

Chapter 2. Military Soothsayers

Chapter 3. War for a Small Planet: Adaptation As Counterinsurgency

II. AFRICA

Chapter 4. Geopolitics of a Cattle Raid

Chapter 5. Monsoons and Tipping Points

Chapter 6. The Rise and Fall of East African States

Chapter 7. Somali Apocalypse

Chapter 8. Theorizing Failed States

III. ASIA

Chapter 9. Drugs, Drought, and Jihad: Environmental History of the Afghanistan War

Chapter 10. Kyrgyzstan’s Little Climate War

Chapter 11. India and Pakistan: Glaciers, Rivers, and Unfinished Business

Chapter 12. India’s Drought Rebels

IV. LATIN AMERICA

Chapter 13. Rio’s Agony: From Extreme Weather to “Planet of Slums”

Chapter 14. Golgotha Mexicana: Climate Refugees, Free Trade, and the War Next Door

Chapter 15. American Walls and Demagogues

Chapter 16. Implications and Possibilities

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