This Changes Everything

Capitalism vs. the Climate

576 pages

English language

Published Nov. 20, 2015 by Penguin Books, Limited.

ISBN:
978-0-241-95618-2
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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 …

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Subjects

  • Climatic changes
  • Capitalism
  • Global environmental change
  • Environmental economics
  • Environmental policy, economic aspects