Tropic of Chaos_ Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence - Christian Parenti [0]
ALSO BY CHRISTIAN PARENTI
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
I - LAST CALL FOR ILLUSIONS
CHAPTER 1 - Who Killed Ekaru Loruman?
Climate War Forensics
The Facts
The Social Challenge
The Catastrophic Convergence
Mitigation and Adaptation
The Argument
CHAPTER 2 - Military Soothsayers
The Apocalypse on Paper
The Allies
Geography of Climate Chaos
Hard State versus Failed State
CHAPTER 3 - War for a Small Planet: Adaptation As Counterinsurgency
Asymmetry from Above
The Receipt
Small Wars Past
Colonial Origins
A Doctrine Emerges
Banana Wars
The Manual
Cold War Proxies
Post–Cold War
II - AFRICA
CHAPTER 4 - Geopolitics of a Cattle Raid
The Raid
Inflamed Anew
Rain Cloud and Kalashnikov
Kenya by Road
Turkana
The Nomad Town
The Land of Raiding
CHAPTER 5 - Monsoons and Tipping Points
Life, Death, and Clouds
Feedback Loops and Tipping Points
Two Degrees Celsius
Bone-Eating Storks
Sifting for Causality
Gangsters
CHAPTER 6 - The Rise and Fall of East African States
Creating Kenya
Using Crisis, Seeding Crisis
Kikuyu Pushback
Decline of Old Raiding
The Guns of Uganda
Armories Plundered
Enter El Niño
False Solutions
CHAPTER 7 - Somali Apocalypse
Fall of the Lion
Paved with Outside Help
Ogaden War Forever
Fallout
Into the Abyss
CHAPTER 8 - Theorizing Failed States
Anatomy of the Ruins
Development in Reverse
States, War‚ Crime
III - ASIA
CHAPTER 9 - Drugs, Drought, and Jihad: Environmental History of the Afghanistan War
The Role of Drought
Vacation King
The Famine Coup
Saur Revolution
Droughtistan
Merciful Flower
Sticky Sap
Out of Nangarhar
CHAPTER 10 - Kyrgyzstan’s Little Climate War
Power . . .
. . . and Water
Last Straw
Post-Soviet Crisis
Central Asian Jihad
CHAPTER 11 - India and Pakistan: Glaciers, Rivers, and Unfinished Business
Water Tower Karakorum
Riparian Politics
Paradox of Scarcity
Bellicose Dams
Strategic Displacement
Triage
CHAPTER 12 - India’s Drought Rebels
Deep Roots of Rebellion
Naxalism Now
Climate, Water, and War
Hydraulic States—in Theory and Practice
Neoliberalism and Death by Cotton
The Green Revolution
Irrigating Corruption
Dry Cocktail of Rage
Dark Arts of Repression
Sowing Chaos
IV - LATIN AMERICA
CHAPTER 13 - Rio’s Agony: From Extreme Weather to “Planet of Slums”
Catastrophic Convergence Urbanized
New Climatic Normal
Repression in the Megaslums
Blowback Brazilian Style
From Guerrillas to Gangs
Neoliberal Brazil
From ISI to IMF
Continent of Debt
Austerity
Human Costs
Nordeste
Drought Land
Technologies of Adaptation
Politics of Adaptation
Rolling Back Neoliberalism
CHAPTER 14 - Golgotha Mexicana: Climate Refugees, Free Trade, and the War Next Door
Political Teleconnections
Migration
Who Is a Climate Migrant?
Neoliberal Fish
Pushed from the Sierra
Insurgent Mexico
Article 27 and the Corporatist State
Cárdenas and Oil
Oil’s Cursed Boom
Logic of Loans
Crash
Bailout ’82
NAFTA
Narcoguerra: Countdown to Chaos
In the Beginning There Was Murder
The Pus of Free Trade
Destabilization
Which Way Mexico?
CHAPTER 15 - American Walls and Demagogues
Spirit of War
Urban Border
Detention
Land of Violent Talk
Ideological Parapets
Season of Hate, Again
The Paranoid Style and Its Rational Uses
Fortress Europe
Romancing the End Times
CHAPTER 16 - Implications and Possibilities
Technology
Economics
Politics
Resistance North
Resistance South
Mitigation Now
Pathways Forward
Big Green Buy
Capitalism versus Nature?
Acknowledgements
NOTES
INDEX
Copyright Page
ALSO BY CHRISTIAN PARENTI
Lockdown America
The Soft Cage
The Freedom
For Juliet and her whole generation, with apologies
The pressure of the hungry and desperate billions has not yet become so great that world leaders see Kurtz’s solution as the only humane, the only possible, but fundamentally sound one. But that day is not far off. I see it coming. That is why I read history.
—SVEN LINDQVIST‚ Exterminate All the Brutes
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