This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Klein Naomi

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Klein Naomi

The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core free market ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems.

In short, either we embrace radical change ourselves or radical changes will be visited upon our physical world. The status quo is no longer an option.

In This Changes Everything Naomi Klein argues that climate change isn't just another issue to be neatly filed between taxes and health care. It's an alarm that calls us to fix an economic system that is already failing us in many ways. Klein meticulously builds the case for how massively reducing our greenhouse emissions is our best chance to simultaneously reduce gaping inequalities, re-imagine our broken democracies, and rebuild our gutted local economies. She exposes the ideological desperation of the climate-change deniers, the messianic delusions of the would-be geoengineers, and the tragic defeatism of too many mainstream green initiatives. And she demonstrates precisely why the market has not--and cannot--fix the climate crisis but will instead make things worse, with ever more extreme and ecologically damaging extraction methods, accompanied by rampant disaster capitalism.

Klein argues that the changes to our relationship with nature and one another that are required to respond to the climate crisis humanely should not be viewed as grim penance, but rather as a kind of gift--a catalyst to transform broken economic and cultural priorities and to heal long-festering historical wounds. And she documents the inspiring movements that have already begun this process: communities that are not just refusing to be sites of further fossil fuel extraction but are building the next, regeneration-based economies right now.

Can we pull off these changes in time? Nothing is certain. Nothing except that climate change changes everything. And for a very brief time, the nature of that change is still up to us.

Naomi Klein is the award-winning author of the international bestseller No Logo, which was voted one of the hundred most important Canadian books ever published by The Literary Review of Canada. She's also the author of Fences and Windows, a collection of essays. She co-wrote the documentary film The Take with Avi Lewis, which was an Official Selection of the Venice Biennale and received the Best Documentary Jury Award at the American Film Institute's Film Festival in Los Angeles. She is a contributing editor for Harper's, a reporter for Rolling Stone, and the author of a syndicated column that is read all over the world. The James Aronson Prize for Social Justice Journalism was given to her.

She is a former Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics and the recipient of an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws from the University of King's College in Nova Scotia. She was born in Montreal and now resides in Toronto.

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ISBN 13	9780307401991
ISBN 10	0307401995
Title	This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
Author	Klein Naomi
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Knopf Canada
Year published	2014-09-16
Number of pages	576
Prizes	Hilary Weston Prize for Nonfiction
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