This Changes Everything

This book resonated with me deeply.

Klein focuses on the most crucial issue we face today, climate change, fueled by a system obsessed with profits and constant growth, which resonated very deeply with me. This book is imperative because it shows how the consumption of resources and materials is what drives powerful states around the world to dominate and make modern colonies of weaker countries in the name of profit and at any cost. 

I really liked how Klein breaks down ways that show us how our current economic system is at the heart of this crisis and that change… show more.

This book is also heavily dog-eared. It is full of chin-dropping facts about how we got here and why we need systems change to address climate change. The climate crisis is clearly exposed, but it is ultimately a positive book.

Klein explains how policies and actions to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions also offer an opportunity to reduce inequalities, redefine democracy, and bring back thriving local economies. The "market" can’t fix the climate crisis. We can use this crisis to reweave our relationship with nature and with each other to create a better world.

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I read Klein’s No Logo as a teenager and it formed a very deep impression on me, I’ve been a follower of her work ever since. I’m constantly confused and fascinated by people who claim that the climate crisis will be solved by ‘market solutions’ despite the mountain of evidence to the contrary, much of which is skillfully unpacked here. Important and enlightening. 

This book changed everything for me too. I met Naomi after a lecture and started producing articles for her. As I weaved her arguments against capitalism together with the frontline stories I was capturing, the pieces of the puzzle for my own Frontlines book fell into place. Naomi knows how dirty power plays at corporate and state levels shapes our lives, but by linking all this with the state of play in the living world, she gave the environmental movement the shock therapy it needed. A perfect present for anyone concerned by the war on nature, which by definition is… show more.

Another powerhouse paradigm-shifter—a party crasher for 21st-century environmentalism—and yeah, it’s a doozie. Think we can “save the planet” without challenging an economy that’s fundamentally hard-wired to devastate people and environments? Or that we can use the profit-maximizing economy (here’s looking at you, carbon markets) to reign in the inevitable earth-wide destruction? Think harder and think again.

The book that really changed the way I looked at the issue, a book at once terrifying and hopeful. I was already convinced that climate change was real and serious, but this deeply personal book galvanized me—leading to my own arrest at a protest against the BP refinery in Whiting, Indiana, not far from Chicago, where I was living at the time. Klein talks to people, some of the leading climate-change denialists and leading scientists on the other side; she interviews “the new climate warriors” and participates in some of their actions; she digs deep into the causes of climate-change… show more.