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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate

by Naomi Klein
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate

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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 isnt just another issue to be neatly filed between taxes and health care. Its 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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“This may be the first truly honest book ever written about climate change.” Bryan Walsh

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"This is the best book about climate change in a very long time—in large part because it's about much more. It sets the most important crisis in human history in the context of our other ongoing traumas, reminding us just how much the powers-that-be depend on the power of coal, gas and oil. And that in turn should give us hope, because it means the fight for a just world is the same as the fight for a livable one." Rob Nixon - The New York Times Book Review

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“This Changes Everything is the work book for...[a] new, more assertive, more powerful environmental movement.” Mark Bittman

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"Naomi Klein applies her fine, fierce, and meticulous mind to the greatest, most urgent questions of our times....I count her among the most inspirational political thinkers in the world today." Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things and Capitalism: A Ghost Story

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“Naomi Klein is a genius. She has done for politics what Jared Diamond did for the study of human history. She skillfully blends politics, economics and history and distills out simple and powerful truths with universal applicability.” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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“[A]robust new polemic....Drawing on an impressive volume of research, Ms. Klein savages the idea that we will be saved by new technologies or by an incremental shift away from fossil fuels: Both approaches, she argues, are forms of denial....Ms. Klein is aware of the intractability of the problems she describes, but she manages optimism nonetheless.” Nathaniel Rich, The New York Times

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"Klein is a brave and passionate writer who always deserves to be heard, and this is a powerful and urgent book." John Gray, The Observer (UK)

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“If global warming is a worldwide wake-up call, we’re all pretty heavy sleepers....We haven't made significant progress, Klein argues, because we've been expecting solutions from the very same institutions that created the problem in the first place....Klein's sharp analysis makes a compelling case that a mass awakening is part of the answer.” Chris Bentley, The Chicago Tribune

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“Gripping and dramatic....[Klein] writes of a decisive battle for the fate of the earth in which we either take back control of the planet from the capitalists who are destroying it or watch it all burn.” Roy Scranton, Rolling Stone

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“Naomi Klein’s latest book may be the manifesto that the climate movement — and the planet — needs right now....For those with whom her message does resonate — and they are likely to be legion — her book could help catalyze the kind of mass movement she argues the world needs now.” Mason Inman, San Francisco Chronicle

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“Powerfully and uncompromisingly written, the impassioned polemic we have come to expect from Klein, mixing first-hand accounts of events around the world and withering political analysis....Her stirring vision is nothing less than a political, economic, social, cultural and moral make-over of the human world.” Mike Hulme, New Scientist

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“A powerful, profound, and compelling book.” Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive

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“Klein is one of the left’s most influential figures and a prominent climate champion....[She] is a gifted writer and there is little doubt about the problem she identifies.” Pilita Clark, The Financial Times

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"The most momentous and contentious environmental book since Silent Spring.” Rob Nixon, The New York Times Book Review

About the Author

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, and author of the New York Times and #1 international bestseller The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Her first book, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, was also an international bestseller. Klein is a contributing editor for Harpers and reporter for Rolling Stone and writes a syndicated column for The Nation and the Guardian. She lives in Toronto.

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See the full review here: http://www.ecoequity.org/ excerpt: "... the climate crisis came with spectacularly “bad timing.” The severity of the danger became clear at the very time when “there-is-no-alternative” capitalism was rising to ideological triumph, foreclosing the exact remedies (long-term planning, stricter government regulation, collective action) that could address the crisis. It’s a crucial insight, and it alone justifies the price of admission."

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