The Heat and the FuryPeter SchwartzsteinLabel: Footnote Press LtdDescription: 'A landmark work on perhaps the essential question of our time' - David Wallace-Wells author of The Uninhabitable Earth In this ground-breaking book environmental journalist Peter Schwartzstein takes the reader on the first on-the-ground exploration of climate change's contribution to global conflict. From the ravaged villages of Iraq where ISIS has used drought as a recruiting tool and weapon of terror to the pirate-ridden waters of Bangladesh - and drawing on more than a decade of reporting from dozens of countries - Schwartzstein writes about the unexpected ways in which climate change is feeding global unrest and conflict. Through the stories of the soldiers farmers spies and others affected around the world he makes sense of a form of conflict that remains poorly understood even as it devastates the lives of so many millions of people.While researching this book Schwartzstein was chased by kidnappers detained by police and told in no uncertain terms that he was no longer welcome in certain countries. Yet as he recounts these personal brushes with violence are simply a hint of the conflict simmering in our warming world. As Schwartztein's unparalleled reporting shows there's nothing inevitable about climate violence. In fact as he sets out the same stresses that are pitching people against one another can even help bring them back together.
