"Cleo Paskal in her authoritative new book, Global Warring,
How Environmental, Economic, and Political Crises Will Redraw the
World Map, uses historical examples and modern climate science to
draw parallels with 21st century geopolitics which is giving rise
to climatepolitics. Paskal`s extensive examination points to the
uncomfortable conclusion that every country and continent will be
seriously impacted by environmental changes this century. The idea
that somehow the US and the rest of the developed world will be
shielded from the impacts of global heating is patently
false."
- Jerry Cope, Huffington Post
"As climate change increasingly becomes part of our everyday
concerns, a need has emerged for international experts to help make
sense of its potential consequences. In Global Warring,
journalist Cleo Paskal does exactly that. Unlike so many other
books on the subject, Paskal doesn`t limit her scope to the
catastrophic environmental damage that climate change could wreak.
Instead, she expands her scope to provide a thorough and detailed
explanation of how this looming environmental crisis will impact
global security and the geopolitical status quo.
Global Warring is a pleasure to read, even though its
message is distressing. It is neither a sabre-rattling activist`s
rant nor a dreary policy tome, although it contains the most
significant aspects of each. It is a book that makes the reader sit
up and take notice and, with luck, take action."
-- Quill & Quire
"Cleo Paskal is original and compelling; a pioneering scholar of
the new terrain where environmental change confronts national
security, she charts the dramatic implications not just for the
game of nations but for their geographic borders, their resources
and their fundamental interests."
-Martin Walker, senior director of the Global Business Policy
Council and editor-in-chief emeritus of United Press
International.
"Cleo Paskal avoids the pitfall of viewing all environmental
threats to security through the lens of climate change, a necessary
but certainly not sufficient focus for understanding the security
challenges of environmental change. Paskal sets her analysis firmly
at ground level where the practical implications of environmental
change are felt and policy decisions must be made to address
them."
-Geoffrey D. Dabelko, director, Environmental Change and Security
Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
"Cleo Paskal's mastery over geopolitics has been fused to a
remarkable understanding of just how the coming geophysical changes
may affect our planet. This is the first comprehensive view of the
real consequences of environmental change."
-M.D. Nalapat, UNESCO Peace Chair and director of the Department of
Geopolitics, Manipal University, India
"In a clear, comprehensive and alarming analysis, Cleo Paskal
underlines the geopolitically disruptive potential of climate
change. Arguably this is the biggest challenge to human society
since the Ice Age or the Black Death and it is not clear we are any
readier to respond adequately to ours than were our unfortunate
ancestors to theirs."-Guy Stanley, Desautels Faculty of Management,
McGill University.
"In a field beset by hyperbole on the one hand, and complacency
on the other, Cleo Paskal's work provides a refreshing,
well-grounded and highly readable take on geopolitics and
environmental change in the twenty-first century."-Dr Jeffrey Mazo,
International Institute for Strategic Studies
"Cleo Paskal's work vividly illustrates the complex
interconnections between climate change, environmental conditions,
and energy security. Rather than just take a global view, she also
demonstrates how environmental changes will impact the lives of
people across the globe, from Arctic Canada to the South Pacific.
Paskal's unique and valuable scholarship charts the geopolitical
implications of these changes for politics, and is a sobering
reminder of the challenges we face."-Dr Chad Briggs, Institute for
Environmental Security