Klein, Naomi

This changes everything.

Capitalism vs. the Climate.

London

2014

9781846145063

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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.

Cover

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Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Introduction One Way or Another, Everything Changes

PART ONE
BAD TIMING

01. The Right Is Right: The Revolutionary Power of Climate Change

02. Hot Money: How Free Market Fundamentalism Helped Overheat the Planet

03. Public and Paid For: Overcoming the Ideological Blocks to the Next
Economy

04. Planning and Banning: Slapping the Invisible Hand, Building a Movement

05. Beyond Extractivism: Confronting the Climate Denier Within

PART TWO
MAGICAL THINKING

06. Fruits, Not Roots: The Disastrous Merger of Big Business and Big Green

07. No Messiahs: The Green Billionaires Won't Save Us

08. Dimming the Sun: The Solution to Pollution Is . . . Pollution?

PART THREE
STARTING ANYWAY

09. Blockadia: The New Climate Warriors

10. Love Will Save This Place: Democracy, Divestment, and the Wins So Far

11. You and What Army? Indigenous Rights and the Power of Keeping Our
Word

12. Sharing the Sky: The Atmospheric Commons and the Power of Paying Our
Debts

13. The Right to Regenerate: Moving from Extraction to Renewal

Conclusion The Leap Years: Just Enough Time for Impossible

Notes

Acknowledgments