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This changes everything : capitalism vs. the climate / Naomi Klein.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: x, 566 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1451697384 (hardback)
  • 9781451697384 (hardback)
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Contents:
Introduction : One way or another, everything changes -- Part 1: BAD TIMING. The Right is right : the revolutionary power of climate change ; Hot money: how free market fundamentalism helped overheat the planet ; Public and paid for : overcoming the ideological blocks to the next economy ; Planning and banning : slapping the invisible hand, building a movement ; Beyond extractivism: confronting the climate denier within -- Part 2: MAGICAL THINKING. Fruits, not roots : the disastrous merger of Big Business and Big Green ; No messiahs : the green billionaires won't save us ; Dimming the sun : the solution to pollution is ... pollution? -- Part 3: STARTING ANYWAY. Blockadia : the new climate warriors ; Love will save this place : democracy, divestment, and the wins so far ; You and what army? : indigenous rights and the power of keeping our word ; Sharing the sky : the atmospheric commons and the power of paying our debts ; The right to regenerate : moving from extraction to renewal -- Conclusion: The leap years : just enough time for impossible.
Summary: Forget everything you think you know about global warming. The really inconvenient truth is that it's not about carbon--it's about capitalism. The convenient truth is that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better. In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein tackles the most profound threat humanity has ever faced: the war our economic model is waging against life on earth. Klein exposes the myths that are clouding the climate debate. We have been told the market will save us, when in fact the addiction to profit and growth is digging us in deeper every day. We 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: reining in corporate power, rebuilding local economies, and reclaiming our democracies. We have also been told that humanity is too greedy and selfish to rise to this challenge. In fact, all around the world, the fight for the next economy and against reckless extraction is already succeeding in ways both surprising and inspiring. Climate change, Klein argues, is a civilizational wake-up call, a powerful message delivered in the language of fires, floods, storms, and droughts. Confronting it is no longer about changing the lightbulbs. It's about changing the world--before the world changes so drastically that no one is safe. Either we leap--or we sink. Once a decade, Naomi Klein writes a book that redefines its era. This one is about to upend the debate about the stormy era already upon us.--From publisher description.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-525) and index.

Introduction : One way or another, everything changes -- Part 1: BAD TIMING. The Right is right : the revolutionary power of climate change ; Hot money: how free market fundamentalism helped overheat the planet ; Public and paid for : overcoming the ideological blocks to the next economy ; Planning and banning : slapping the invisible hand, building a movement ; Beyond extractivism: confronting the climate denier within -- Part 2: MAGICAL THINKING. Fruits, not roots : the disastrous merger of Big Business and Big Green ; No messiahs : the green billionaires won't save us ; Dimming the sun : the solution to pollution is ... pollution? -- Part 3: STARTING ANYWAY. Blockadia : the new climate warriors ; Love will save this place : democracy, divestment, and the wins so far ; You and what army? : indigenous rights and the power of keeping our word ; Sharing the sky : the atmospheric commons and the power of paying our debts ; The right to regenerate : moving from extraction to renewal -- Conclusion: The leap years : just enough time for impossible.

Forget everything you think you know about global warming. The really inconvenient truth is that it's not about carbon--it's about capitalism. The convenient truth is that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better. In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein tackles the most profound threat humanity has ever faced: the war our economic model is waging against life on earth. Klein exposes the myths that are clouding the climate debate. We have been told the market will save us, when in fact the addiction to profit and growth is digging us in deeper every day. We 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: reining in corporate power, rebuilding local economies, and reclaiming our democracies. We have also been told that humanity is too greedy and selfish to rise to this challenge. In fact, all around the world, the fight for the next economy and against reckless extraction is already succeeding in ways both surprising and inspiring. Climate change, Klein argues, is a civilizational wake-up call, a powerful message delivered in the language of fires, floods, storms, and droughts. Confronting it is no longer about changing the lightbulbs. It's about changing the world--before the world changes so drastically that no one is safe. Either we leap--or we sink. Once a decade, Naomi Klein writes a book that redefines its era. This one is about to upend the debate about the stormy era already upon us.--From publisher description.

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