An award-winning journalist combines on-the-ground reportage with incisive analysis to reveal the disturbing connection between climate change and increased social and political violence.

Part I: Last Call for Illusions -- Who Killed Ekaru Loruman? -- Military Soothsayers -- War for a Small Planet: Adaptation As Counterinsurgency -- Part II: Africa -- Geopolitics of a Cattle Raid -- Monsoons and Tipping Points -- The Rise and Fall of East African States -- Somali Apocalypse -- Theorizing Failed States -- Part III: Asia -- Drugs, Drought, and Jihad: Environmental History of the Afghanistan War -- Kyrgyzstan's Little Climate War -- India and Pakistan: Glaciers, Rivers, and Unfinished Business -- India's Drought Rebels -- Part IV: Latin America -- Rio's Agony: From Extreme Weather to "Planet of Slums" -- Golgotha Mexicana: Climate Refugees, Free Trade, and the War Next Door -- American Walls and Demagogues -- Implications and Possibilities.