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This Changes Everything
Naomi Klein
Capitalism vs. The Climate
Simon & Schuster
September 2014
On Sale: September 16, 2014
576 pages
ISBN: 1451697384
EAN: 9781451697384
Kindle: B00JHIDON6
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Non-Fiction
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.
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