This changes everything : capitalism vs. the climate / Naomi Klein.
Klein, Naomi, 1970-
2014
HC79.E5 K56 2014 (Mapit)
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Title This changes everything : capitalism vs. the climate / Naomi Klein.
Author Klein, Naomi, 1970-
Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
ISBN 9781451697384 hardcover
1451697384 hardcover
Published New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Language English
Description x, 566 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number HC79.E5 K56 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification 363.738/74
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-525) and index.
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Introduction : Decade Zero: One Way Or Another, Everything Changes
The Right is Right : The Revolutionary Power of Climate Change
Hot Money: How Free Market Fundamentalism Helped Overheat the Planet
Public and Paid For : Why Climate Change Forces Us to Reclaim the Commons
Planning and Banning : Slapping the Invisible Hand, Building a Movement
Beyond Extractivism: Confronting the Climate Denier Within
The Green Giveaway : The False Solutions that Wasted Decades
No Messiahs : The Green Billionaires Won't Save Us
Digging in Deeper : The Reckless Dreams of the Geoengineers
Blockadia : The New Climate Warriors
Love Will Save This Place : Rooted Movements, Real Victories
You and What Army? : The Power of Keeping our Word, And Paying our Debts
The Right to Regenerate : From Extraction to Renewal
Conclusion : The Leap Years : Just Enough Time for Impossible.

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