Noted author Christian Parenti gives free lecture tonight on climate crisis and state security

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      This evening, one of America's most provocative analysts of climate change is in Vancouver.

      Christian Parenti, author of Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence, will deliver a free lecture entitled "Rethinking the State in the Conext of the Climate Crisis".

      There's mandatory registration, and it will take place at 7 p.m. in the Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts at SFU Woodward's.

      Parenti's illuminating 2011 book looks at how climate change is already causing significant disruption between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, furthering rebellions, accelerating droughts, and promoting a repressive counter-reaction in the developed world.

      Tropic of Chaos is also a fascinating exploration of the rise of state power—a subject that he's certain to raise this evening.

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