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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate Paperback – August 4, 2015
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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.
- Print length576 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherSimon & Schuster
- Publication dateAugust 4, 2015
- Dimensions5.5 x 1 x 8.38 inches
- ISBN-101451697392
- ISBN-13978-1451697391
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"The most momentous and contentious environmental book since Silent Spring.” -- Rob Nixon ― The New York Times Book Review
"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." -- Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and co-founder of 350.org
“This Changes Everything is the work book for . . . [a] new, more assertive, more powerful environmental movement.” -- Mark Bittman
"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
“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.
“[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
"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)
“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
“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
“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
“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
“A powerful, profound, and compelling book.” -- Matthew Rothschild ― The Progressive
“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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- Publisher : Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition (August 4, 2015)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 576 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1451697392
- ISBN-13 : 978-1451697391
- Item Weight : 1.29 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 1 x 8.38 inches
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Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and international and New York Times bestselling author of nine critically acclaimed books: How To Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Earth and Each Other (2021), On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal (2019), No Is Not Enough: Resisting the New Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need (2017), This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (2014), The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007) and No Logo (2000). In 2018, she published The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes On the Disaster Capitalists (2018) reprinted from her feature article for The Intercept with all royalties donated to Puerto Rican organization juntegente.org. Her new book, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World will be published on September 12, 2023.
Naomi Klein is a columnist with The Guardian. She has also written regular columns for The Intercept (as Senior Contributing Writer), The Nation, and The Globe and Mail that were syndicated in major newspapers around the world by The New York Times Syndicate. She has been a contributing editor at Harper’s and Rolling Stone. She has reported from China for Rolling Stone, Standing Rock and Puerto Rico for The Intercept, Copenhagen (COP15) for The Nation, Buenos Aires for The Financial Times, and Iraq for Harper’s. Additionally, her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times, The Globe and Mail, El Pais, L’Espresso, The New Statesman, Le Monde, among many other publications.
Naomi’s books have been published in over 35 languages. On Fire was a New York Times bestseller and was named a Best Climate Book by Fast Company magazine. No Is Not Enough was a New York Times bestseller and was nominated for the National Book Award. This Changes Everything won the 2014 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction and was nominated for multiple other awards as well as appearing on the New York Times bestseller list and a New York Times Book Review ‘100 Notable Books of the Year.’ The Shock Doctrine was published worldwide in 2007 and translated into over 25 languages. It won the inaugural Warwick Prize for Writing. It appeared on multiple ‘best of year’ lists including as a New York Times Critics’ Pick of the Year. Naomi Klein’s first book No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies was translated into over 30 languages. The New York Times called it “a movement bible.” A tenth anniversary edition of No Logo was published worldwide in 2009. The Literary Review of Canada has named it one of the hundred most important Canadian books ever published. In 2016, The Guardian picked No Logo as one of the Top 100 Non Fiction books of all time. Time magazine also chose No Logo as one of the Top 100 Non-Fiction books published since 1923. A collection of her writing, Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate was published in 2002.
She has received multiple honorary degrees and awards. In 2019 she was named one of the The Frederick Douglass 200, a project to honor the impact of 200 living individuals who best embody the work and spirit of Douglass. In 2014, the International Studies Association’s IPE Outstanding Activist-Scholar Award honoured her for her activism in alter-globalizations social movements and protests. Author of numerous books and articles, Naomi is one of the most important voices in the alter-globalizations movement.”
In 2015 she was awarded the Izzy (I.F. Stone) Award for Outstanding Independent Media and Journalism: “Few journalists today take on the big issues as comprehensively and fearlessly as Naomi Klein. She combines rigorous reporting, analysis, history and global scope into a package that not only identifies problems, but also illuminates successful activism and solutions. That goes for her groundbreaking book on climate change and for columns that brilliantly connect the dots – such as the intersection of climate justice and racial justice.”
In 2016 she was awarded Australia’s international award for peace, the Sydney Peace Prize for, “exposing the structural causes and responsibility for the climate crisis, for inspiring us to stand up locally, nationally and internationally to demand a new agenda for sharing the planet that respects human rights and equality, and for reminding us of the power of authentic democracy to achieve transformative change and justice.”
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Naomi Klein's masterwork changes all of that. This book is nothing short of the climate movement's manifesto; a clarion call to arms. The amount of information collected and incorporated into its main 466 pages is staggering (the endnote references alone are an encyclopedic resource about virtually every aspect of the climate issue). She convincingly demonstrates how fossil fuel extractivism has come to dominate and subjugate every aspect of our unbridled free market economic system. She reveals the failings -- and surprising capture by the extraction industry -- of many of the major environmental organizations. She explains the hubristic folly of relying on geoengineering proposals to "fix" the global warming problem, and she shows why enlightened billionaires will not be enough to step up and provide solutions where governments or international bodies will not.
Most importantly, though, Ms. Klein has provided us a clear road map for not just what needs to be done, but what actually can be done. The tools are available -- tools that I for one was completely unaware of -- and they are available today. The legal leverage that Indigenous peoples around the world can exert is enormous, and potentially crippling to the fossil fuel extraction industry that is presently holding our planet hostage; partnering with and helping underwrite such efforts are critical. Other mass movements around the world like the oppositional groundswell against ubiquitious gas fracking that threatens drinking water resources for hundreds of millions of people -- movements that she labels Blockadia -- have emerged, and are having greater impact and influence than anyone could have imagined just five years ago. Finally, she explains how the only way to successfully address the climate change crisis is to fundamentally change the economic system that created the crisis. Free market fundamentalism has led humanity to this existential brink, and we will not be able to reverse course without completely re-thinking how we structure our priorities, our cultures, and our economic systems.
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING is beautifully, elegantly and intelligently written. Ms. Klein's ability to assimilate and clearly integrate and elucidate such a wealth of seemingly disparate information is nothing short of astonishing. Be assured that this is not just another excellent book about climate change. This is a game-changer; read it, and you'll know what needs to be done and what can be done. As long as we blindly continue down the same road that brought us here, we will not be able to avoid planetary armageddon. However, as Ms. Klein explains, the solutions to breaking the bondage of fossil fuel extractivism are already available and in-place. We need only seize the moment and act.
by Naomi Klein
The economic catastrophe of the 1930s reshaped the excesses of the Guilded Age into the more egalitarian era ushered in by The New Deal. The transformation continued after WW II, as enthusiastic voters supported sweeping social programs like Social Security, subsidized housing, public funding for the arts and, in the rest of the developed world, health care. The global warming and climate change caused by mankind’s use of fossil fuels is rapidly developing into a crisis of much greater magnitude, and the thesis of This Changes Everything is that successfully adapting to the resulting environmental changes will require a correspondingly, even grander metamorphosis of human culture.
However, a redesign of the social order that protects humanity from both a savagely unjust economic system and a destabilized climate system is not the only possible outcome.
Ms. Klein understands how corporate interests capitalize on the fear and uncertainty that accompany catastrophe. This provides the perfect climate for instituting policies designed to enrich a small elite, as demonstrated by the US response to 911 and the banking crisis of 2008. Times of turmoil provide opportunities for “lifting regulations, cutting social spending and forcing large-scale privatizations of the public sphere. They have also been the excuse for extreme crackdowns on civil liberties and chilling human rights violations.”
Humanity is failing to respond as the climate crisis rapidly gains momentum. The book explains how this is one symptom of a global economy dominated by deregulated capitalism. Privatization is rapidly dismantling and selling off the public resources needed for massive investment in low carbon infrastructure, like public transportation. As corporate control metastasizes into all levels of government, it is able to insure that deregulation and reduced taxation continue to subsidize the extraction of coal, oil and gas by the fossil fuel industry. In addition, although enormous losses in corporate tax revenue place a heavier burden on the poor and middle class, continuing growth in government subsidies for business requires additional revenue. This is extracted from the budgets of programs identified by the those on the political Right as remnants of the failed socialist model, like public school and social services programs. Meanwhile, global trade deals like NAFTA, CAFTA and the Transpacific Partnership (TPP) are insuring a global governance system designed for and assembled by transnational corporate interests.
She notes that, unfortunately for mankind, there was an effective corporate grip on world governance and the economy by the time that scientists like James Hansen had determined the importance of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to prevent global warming. The immediate response of fossil fuel interests was to discredit these findings by following the tobacco industry model of sowing public doubt about the dangers of climate change, a strategy that has successfully blunted any attempt to limit fossil fuel use for about four decades. As a result, the global atmospheric and oceanic systems responsible for maintaining a viable world are rapidly approaching a point where the human capacity for change will no longer be able to avert a devastating climate catastrophe.
Any serious reader will find this book fascinating, frightening, and informative. Extensive notations and references are found in the back of the book, along with a fine index. These features also make it an excellent general reference for climate-related issues.
Naomi Klein is a new mother who knows that dealing with the coming climate catastrophe and assuring the future for all children requires cooperation on a global scale. Although there is no guarantee of a favorable outcome, she is optimistic about the potential for our success. Her book explains the reasons for this hopeful outlook, including how each of us can best contribute to the likelihood of our common success.
Understanding Ms Klein’s optimism may be the best possible motivation for reading the book. Everyone can benefit from understanding how This Changes Everything.
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However, this was written in a time when sanity prevailed in the world, where the only thing we had to complain about was that how on finer points Obama gets it wrong. This was a book written for a world where Trump was not the President of USA and regressive policies on climate change by the USA was not the norm.
After reading this book one begins to grasp the true extent of peril we face and how for the first time in the history of this world a single species would be solely responsible for the destruction of all.
Needless to say this book must be a part of the standard curriculum of students the world over.

