The Secure and the Dispossessed: How the Military and Corporations are Shaping a

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE The Secure and the Dispossessed by Nick Buxton, Ben Hayes An exploration into how the elite exploit the impact of climate change and how communities can resist this process. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description While the worlds scientists and many of its inhabitants despair at the impact of climate change, corporate and military leaders see nothing but opportunities. For them, melting ice caps mean newly accessible fossil fuels, borders to be secured from climate refugees, social conflicts to be managed and more failed states in which to intervene. They are securing their assets at the expanse of the planet and its inhabitants.The Secure and the Dispossessed looks at these deadly approaches with a critical eye. It also considers the flip-side: that the legitimacy of the elite is under unprecedented pressure – from resistance by communities to resource grabs to those creating new ecological and socially just models for managing our energy, food and water. Topics covered include geoengineering, militarism, refugee protection, greenwashing and the agricultural crisis among others. Adaptation and resilience to a climate-changed world is desperately needed, but the form it will take will affect all of our futures. Author Biography Nick Buxton is Communications Manager for TNI. He has edited a number of books including State of Power (TNI, 2015) and The Secure and the Dispossessed (Pluto, 2015).Ben Hayes has worked for the civil liberties organisation Statewatch since 1996, specialising in security, policing and counter-terrorism policy. He now works as an independent researcher and consultant and is a Fellow of the Transnational Institute. He is the co-editor of The Secure and the Dispossessed (Pluto, 2015). Table of Contents List of Figures and BoxesAcknowledgementsForeword by Susan GeorgeIntroduction: Security for Whom in a Time of Climate Crisis? - Nick Buxton and Ben Hayes Part I: The Security Agenda1. The Catastrophic Convergence: Militarism, Neoliberalism and Climate Change - Christian Parenti2. Colonising the Future: Climate Change and International Security Strategies - Ben Hayes3. Climate Change Inc.: How TNCs are Managing Risk and Preparing to Profit in a World of Runaway Climate Change - Oscar ReyesPart II: Security for Whom?4. A Permanent State of Emergency: Civil Contingencies, Risk Management and Human Rights - Nafeez Ahmed, Ben Hayes and Nick Buxton5. From Refugee Protection to Militarised Exclusion: What Future for Climate Refugees? - Ben Hayes, April Humble and Steve Wright6. The Fix Is In: (Geo)engineering Our Way out of the Climate Crisis? - Kathy Jo Wetter and Silvia Ribeiro, ETC Group7. Greenwashing Death: Climate Change and the Arms Trade- Mark AkkermanPart III: Acquisition through Dispossession8. Sowing Insecurity: Food and Agriculture in a Time of Climate Crisis - Zoe W. Brent, Nick Buxton and Annie Shattuck 9. In Deep Water: Confronting the Climate and Water Crises - Mary Ann Manahan10. Power to the People: Rethinking Energy Security - The Platform CollectiveConclusion: Finding Security in a Climate-Changed World - Nick Buxton and Ben HayesNotes on ContributorsIndex Review If you want to understand why we cant leave it to the Pentagon to shape our response to climate change, then you need to read this book -- Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything and The Shock DoctrineAs this riveting analysis makes clear, climate change will have winners as well as losers. This is far too important to be left to the scientists -- Fred Pearce, environment consultant, New ScientistWe can deal with the climate crisis either as a moment to build new global unity, or to further divide the planet between profiteering elites and everyone else. This book will help you understand the possibilities, and hopefully move you to join the fight for justice -- Bill McKibben, author of The End of NatureA tremendous book that shows how the few intend to profit from climate change and how the many can stop it happening -- John Vidal, Environment Editor, the GuardianAmong the books that attempt to model the coming century, this one stands out for its sense of plausibility and danger -- Kim Stanley RobinsonA must read for anyone concerned to secure ecological futures for more than just the rich and powerful few in the global system -- Simon Dalby, Balsillie School of International AffairsBrings together a series of excellent contributions to take apart the dangers and short-sightedness of securitising climate change. This is a badly needed book and a hugely important contribution to one of the most significant issues of our age -- Paul Rogers, Professor of Peace Studies at University of BradfordA brilliantly conceived volume that warns us of the dire political and ecological consequences of accepting a security rationale for the control of climate change policy that entrusts the human future to the main culprits of our era: corporate neoliberalism and geopolitical militarism -- Richard Falk, American Professor Emeritus of Internal Law at Princeton UniversityThis book provides a deep and wide-ranging analysis of the securitisation of climate change and its military and corporate sponsors and beneficiaries -- Betsy Hartmann, Professor Emerita of Developmental Studies and Senior Policy Analyst of the Population and Development Program, Hampshire College, Amherst, MAThis book is an indispensable guide to the dystopian forces we must confront and the alternative just solutions we will need to advance -- Pablo Solon, Former Ambassador to the Plurinational Government of Bolivia and lead climate negotiator to the UN Review Quote With our politicians refusing to confront the climate crisis, some are looking with hope tothe increasingly influential role being played by military planners and corporate titans. If youwant to understand why we cant leave it to the Pentagon to shape our response to climatechange, then you need to read this book. Details ISBN0745336914 Publisher Pluto Press Series Transnational Institute Year 2015 ISBN-10 0745336914 ISBN-13 9780745336916 Format Hardcover Imprint Pluto Press Subtitle How the Military and Corporations are Shaping a Climate-Changed World Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Ben Hayes Short Title SECURE & THE DISPOSSESSED Language English Media Book DEWEY 333.72 Pages 288 Author Ben Hayes UK Release Date 2015-11-20 Publication Date 2015-11-20 AU Release Date 2015-11-20 NZ Release Date 2015-11-20 Illustrations 2 b&w maps, 2 b&w figures Alternative 9780745336961 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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