To Govern the Globe Quotes

“In 2002, moreover, in a report titled Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises, the National Academies announced a fundamental paradigm shift: “Large, abrupt climate changes have affected hemispheric to global regions repeatedly,” with “changes of up to 16 degrees Celsius and a factor of 2 in precipitation … in periods as short as decades to years.”
― Alfred W. McCoy, To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change

“A survey of the wastelands left by this and other CIA secret wars brings to mind what the ancient Scots chieftain Calgacus once said of the Roman Empire: “They make a desolation and they call it peace.”115”
― Alfred W. McCoy, To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change