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Author:

Klein, Naomi, 1970-

Title:

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

Edition:

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

pages cm

Subject:

Environmental economics.
Environmental policy--Economic aspects.
Climatic changes--Economic aspects.
Global environmental change--Economic aspects.
Capitalism.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / Economics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

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.

ISBN:

1451697384 (hardback)
9781451697384 (hardback)

LCCN:

2014013864

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