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how environmental, economic, and political crises will redraw the world map
Introduction: Been there, done that, and all I got were these lousy extinctions -- The USS Sieve : how environmental change is drilling holes in the ship of state. The coming storm -- The new geopolitical icebergs ; or, How the north was lost. Life on the no longer permanent permafrost -- The global economy : waiting for the ship to come in -- A short history of modern geopolitics, as seen from the deck of a ship -- The great cold rush of '08 -- Precipitating change in Asia and beyond : how China, India, and the West are trying to make friends in interesting times. Today's weather : intolerable with periods of uninhabitable -- The story so far -- Interesting times, narrowing options -- The turbulent Pacific : how rising sea levels could wash away whole countries and swamp the global ship of state. Building a geopolitical ark -- Drawing lines in the water -- Fighting over Atlantis -- Conclusion: Weathering change.
Includes bibliographical references and index.