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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 planets 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.
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Christian Parenti is Associate Professor of Economics at John Jay College, CUNY (City University of New York) . His books include "Radical Hamilton: Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder" (Verso 2020) , "Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence" (2011) ; "The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq" (2004) ; "The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America from Slavery to the War on Terror" (2002) ; and "Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis" (2000/second edition 2008) . As a journalist he reported extensively from Afghanistan, Iraq, and various parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America for The Nation, Fortune, The London Review of Books, The New York Times, and other publications. .
