Book Review: Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence by Christian Parenti

Abstract

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. pt. 1. Last call for illusion -- Who killed Ekaru Loraman -- Military soothsayers -- War for a small planet : adaptation as counterinsurgency -- pt. II. Africa -- Geopolitics of an east african cattle raid -- Monsoons and tipping points -- The rise and fall of East African states -- Somali apocalypse -- Theorizing failed states -- pt. III. Asia -- Drugs, drought and Jihad environmental history of the afghanistan war -- Kyrgyzstan's little climate war -- india and pakistan glaciers, rivers, and unfinished business -- India's drought rebels -- pt. IV. Latin America -- Rio's agony : from extreme weather to "planet of slums" -- Golgotha Mexicana : climate refugees, free trade, and the war next door -- American walls and demagogues -- Implications and possibilities.