Tropics of Chaos: Cherry Picking Some Wacky Quotes

In 2011, a book titled Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence was published.  The author is Christian Parenti.  Here is the amazon page for this strange book.  

From Google Books, I quote from his page 8;  "Societies, like people, deal with new challenges in ways that are conditioned by traumas of the past.  Thus, damaged societies, like damaged people, often respond to new crises in ways that are irrational, short-sighted and self-destructive.  In the case of climate change, the prior traumas that set the stage for bad adaptation, the destructive social response, are Cold War era militarism and the economic pathologies of neoliberal capitalism.  Over the last forty years, both of these forces have distorted the state's relationship to society --- removing and undermining the state's collectivist, regulatory and redistributionary functions while overdeveloping its repressive and military capacities.   This, I argue, inhibits society's ability to avoid violent dislocations as climate change kicks in."

While I have some trouble understanding what in the heck he is saying, it appears to be the mirror opposite of my Climatopolis' logic.  That's funny.    

Mr. Parenti will eventually learn that he will owe the invisible hand an apology.  Big, bad "neoliberal capitalism" will offer him a series of solutions to the challenges we will face.