Climate wars : why people will be killed in the twenty-first century /
By: Welzer, Harald.
Contributor(s): Camiller, Patrick.
Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, c2012Description: vii, 222 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.Content type: text | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780745651453; 0745651453.Subject(s): Climatic changes -- Social aspects | Climatic changes -- Political aspects | Global warming -- Social aspects | Climatic extremes -- Social aspects | Global warming -- Political aspects | Climatic extremes -- Political aspects | War -- Environmental aspects | Refugees -- Environmental aspects | Violence -- Environmental aspects | Environmental degradation -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 363.73874| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
A ship in the desert: the past and future of violence -- Climate conflicts -- Global warming and social catastrophes -- A brief survey of climate change -- Killing yesterday -- Killing today: ecocide -- Killing tomorrow: never-ending wars, ethnic cleansing, terrorism, shifting boundaries -- Changing realities -- The revival of old conflicts: faiths, classes, resources and the erosion of democracy -- More violence -- What can and cannot be done- 1 -- What can and cannot be done- 2 .
Struggles over drinking water, new outbreaks of mass violence, ethnic cleansing, civil wars in the earth's poorest countries, endless flows of refugees: these are the new conflicts and forces shaping the world of the 21st century. Harald Welzer shows how climate change and violence go hand in hand.
Translated from German.