This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

Naomi Klein

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Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon—it's about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better. In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein, author of the global bestsellers Shock Doctrine and No Logo, exposes the myths that are clouding climate debate. You have been told the market will save us, when in fact the addiction to profit and growth is digging us in deeper every day. You have been told it's impossible to get off fossil fuels when in fact we know exactly how to do it—it just requires breaking every rule in the 'free-market' playbook. You have also been told that humanity is too greedy and selfish to rise to this challenge. In fact, all around the world, the fight back is already succeeding in ways both surprising and inspiring. It's about changing the world, before the world changes so drastically that no one is safe. Either we leap—or we sink. This Changes Everything is a book that will redefine our era.

Publication Year: 2014


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    Mar 10, 2025
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    Apr 29, 2025
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    Reading this novel a little over a decade after its publication certainly makes it feel a bit less hopeful than it may have been at time of publication, given we are far beyond the 2C global warming mark from collective emissions. 

    Some of the stories of the big green groups not only accepting, but contributing TO the destruction of the planet actively, the dispossession of the ancestral and rightful heirs to spaces of land, and even actively drilling on land for protected endangered species (including Prairie Attwater Chicken that has breeding grounds - or did - right down the road from me here in Galveston). Hopeful projects, as well as an explanation as to the reality of the climate crisis (at least what it was in 2014) and how that inequitably impacts communities already most harmed by capitalism and imperialism. 

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