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Chris Hedges and Christian Parenti on the Deep-Reaching Ramifications of Climate Change (Video)

BLANK Jun 24, 2017 The Truthdig columnist and "On Contact" host discusses heightened global conflict due to climate change with author and professor Christian Parenti (pictured). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

We Can’t Fight Climate Change if We Keep Lying to Ourselves

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Jun 19, 2017 It is only when we face the bleak future before us that we can begin to use the words “hope” and “resistance.” Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Deadly Weather: ‘This Is Just the Beginning’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 3, 2012 Recent weeks have seen the worst wildfires in Colorado history, the breaking of 2,000 temperature records, a mid-Atlantic storm that killed 23 and left millions without power, and a heat wave that sent the East Coast and the Midwest back to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. But few mainstream meteorologists are talking about climate change. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Why Climate Change Will Make You Love Big Government

By Christian Parenti, TomDispatch Jan 28, 2012 Don’t expect the present anti-government “consensus” to last. Global warming and the freaky, increasingly extreme weather that will accompany it is going to change all that. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Disasters Merging

Nomi Prins / Truthdig Sep 23, 2011 Catastrophic convergence, the “collision of political, economic, and environmental disasters,” is the theme of Christian Parenti's epic new book, “Tropic of Chaos.” “Tropic of Chaos” paints a grim picture of what happens when political, economic and environmental disasters meet. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Bread and the ‘Tropic of Chaos’

Staff / Truthdig Jul 21, 2011 Christian Parenti, who writes regularly for The Nation magazine, has published a book detailing some of the present and future social impacts of climate change. In an essay on Tom Dispatch.com, he connects the rising cost of bread to the revolutionary uprisings in the Middle East and Northern Africa. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )