Contents

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Copyright
4. Acknowledgements
5. 1 A Ship in the Desert: The Past and Future of Violence
   1. Notes
6. 2 Climate Conflicts
   1. The West – I
   2. The Others
   3. The West – II
   4. Attempted Solutions
   5. Killing Makes Sense
   6. Notes
7. 3 Global Warming and Social Catastrophes
   1. Undercomplexity
   2. Who Are ‘We’?
   3. Old Environmental Problems
   4. Notes
8. 4 A Brief Survey of Climate Change
   1. Two Degrees More
   2. Notes
9. 5 Killing Yesterday
   1. Apocalypse
   2. Defences
   3. Body Count
   4. Changed Realities
   5. Notes
10. 6 Killing Today: Ecocide
    1. The Flesh of Your Mother Sticks Between My Teeth
    2. Genocide In Rwanda
    3. Crowding
    4. What did the Killers See?
    5. Darfur – the First Climate War
    6. Ecology of War
    7. Failing Societies
    8. State Collapse
    9. Violence and Climate Change
    10. Injustice and Unevenness
    11. Violence and Theory
    12. Notes
11. 7 Killing Tomorrow: Never-Ending Wars, Ethnic Cleansing, Terrorism, Shifting Boundaries
    1. Wars
    2. Never-Ending Wars
    3. Violence Markets
    4. Adaptation
    5. Ethnic Cleansing
    6. Environmental Conflicts
    7. Energy Conflicts
    8. Aeneas, Hera, Amazon and Frontex: Indirect Border Wars
    9. The Morocco–Spain Route
    10. Camps
    11. Frontex Again
    12. Illegal Aliens
    13. Refugees and Asylum Policy
    14. Extra-Territorial Borders
    15. Rapid Social Change
    16. Larger-Than-Life Climate Change
    17. Notes
12. 8 Changed Realities
    1. Shifting Baselines
    2. Reference Frameworks and the Structure of Ignorance
    3. Knowing and Not-Knowing About the Holocaust
    4. Shifting Baselines Elsewhere
    5. Notes
13. 9 The Revival of Old Conflicts: Faiths, Classes, Resources and the Erosion of Democracy
    1. Displacement of Violence
    2. Notes
14. 10 More Violence
15. 11 What Can and Cannot Be Done – 1
    1. Going On As Usual
    2. Future Pasts
    3. THe Good Society
    4. Repressive Tolerance
    5. The Capacity for a Historical Narrative About Oneself
    6. Notes
16. 12 What Can and Cannot Be Done – 2
    1. Notes
17. Index

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