As temperatures rise, climate change is increasingly
expressing itself in human politics through greater violence,
social breakdown and spreading state failure; acclaimed war
correspondent Christian Parenti reports from the frontilines of a
new age of climate wars. Across the Global South, climate change is
breeding war, banditry and social breakdown. As temperatures rise,
glaciers melt, droughts intensify and extreme weather becomes more
frequent, climate change is increasingly expressing itself in human
politics as greater violence, humanitarian crisis, social breakdown
and spreading state failure. From Africa to Asia and Latin America,
the new era of climate war has begun. In "Tropic of Chaos",
award-winning journalist and author Christian Parenti travels
through the frontlines of this gathering catastrophe. Combining
vivid on-the-ground reportage with incisive sociological and
historical analysis, Parenti lays out the raw facts: climate change
is already beginning to express itself as poverty, hunger,
migration, civil war, massive slum urbanisation, and the collapse
of weak states. Parenti locates the geography of this crisis as
running along the old north-south axis of empire. The front lines
of the calamity are that belt of economically and politically
battered post-colonial states girding the planet''s mid-latitudes.
Already the Pentagon and its European allies are planning a
militarized adaptation for this new world.
關於作者：
Christian Parenti is a contributing editor at The Nation and
an investigative Fellow at The Nation Institute. The author of
Lockdown America, The Soft Cage and The Freedom, he writes for
numerous publications including Fortune, Playboy, Conde Nast
Traveler, Salon, Mother Jones and The London Review of Books.
Parenti completed a Ph.D. in Sociology at the London School of
Economics in 2000 and has been an Open Society Institute Senior
Justice Fellow and a Ford Foundation Fellow at the City University
of New York Graduate Center. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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