Here in 2021, reflecting on a book on the global violence of climate change I read 7 years ago… Instead, we must work to meet the challenge of climate-driven violence with a very different set of sustainable economic and development policies. The struggling states of the developing world cannot be allowed to collapse, as they will take other nations down as well.
Parenti argues that this incipient "climate fascism"-a political hardening of wealthy states- is bound to fail. 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. Here he finds failed states amid climatic disasters. 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.
Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state failure. From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun.
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