This changes everything : capitalism vs. the climate

By: Klein NaomiMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: USA Penguin Random House 2015Description: viii, 566 pISBN: 9780241956182LOC classification: HC79.E5
Contents:
Introduction : one way or another, everything changes PART ONE - BAD TIMING 1. The right is right : the revolutionary power of climate change 2. Hot money : how free market fundamentalism helped overheat the planet 3. Public and paid for : overcoming the ideological blocks to the next economy 4. Planning and banning : slapping the invisible hand, building a movement 5. Beyond extractivism : confronting the climate denier within PART TWO- MAGICAL THINKING 6. Fruits, not roots : the disastrous merger of big business and big green 7. No messiahs : the green billionaires won't save us 8. Dimming the sun : the solution to pollution is . . . pollution? PART THREE- STARTING ANYWAY 9. 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.
Summary: 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.
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Introduction : one way or another, everything changes

PART ONE - BAD TIMING
1. The right is right : the revolutionary power of climate change
2. Hot money : how free market fundamentalism helped overheat the planet
3. Public and paid for : overcoming the ideological blocks to the next economy
4. Planning and banning : slapping the invisible hand, building a movement
5. Beyond extractivism : confronting the climate denier within

PART TWO- MAGICAL THINKING
6. Fruits, not roots : the disastrous merger of big business and big green
7. No messiahs : the green billionaires won't save us
8. Dimming the sun : the solution to pollution is . . . pollution?

PART THREE- STARTING ANYWAY
9. 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.

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.

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