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Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence QUOTES

Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence QUOTES

1 " In a world that sees two meter sea level rise, with continued flooding ahead, it will take extraordinary effort for the United States, or indeed any country, to look beyond its own salvation. All of the ways in which human beings have dealt with natural disasters in the past . . . could come together in one conflagration: rage at government’s inability to deal with the abrupt and unpredictable crises; religious fervor, perhaps even a dramatic rise in millennial end-of-days cults; hostility and violence toward migrants and minority groups, at a time of demographic change and increased global migration; and intra- and interstate conflict over resources, particularly food and fresh water. "

― Christian Parenti , Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence