Description
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.
Status
Available
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Publication
Bold Type Books (2012), Edition: Reprint, 312 pages
User reviews
LibraryThing member Stbalbach
There is a good book here that's been subsumed by jargon-laden sentences that obscure rather than clarify. It's too bad as Parenti's thesis is a good one, the unfortunate reality of how climate change is manifesting: the mid-latitude poor countries break down while the northern rich become more
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authoritarian. Parenti describes a constellation of factors, local and global, current and historic - no single cause but force multipliers and repeated shocks to the system from multiple interrelated cause and effects. Recommended for the reader with a good thesaurus. Show Less
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2011
ISBN
1568587295 / 9781568587295