AWARD YEAR
2015
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
Climate Action
KEYWORDS
NAOMI KLEIN, climate change, capitalism vs climate
COUNTRY
Canada
DESIGNED BY
Naomi Klein
WEBSITE
http://thischangeseverything.org/
This changes everything
capitalism vs the climate
This book tackles the most profound threat humanity has ever faced: the war our economic model is waging against life on earth.
Klein exposes the myths that are clouding the climate debate.??We have been told the market will save us, when in fact the addiction to profit and growth is digging us in deeper every day. We have been told it’s impossible to get off fossil fuels when in fact we know exactly how to do it—it just requires breaking every rule in the “free-market” playbook: reining in corporate power, rebuilding local economies, and reclaiming our democracies.
Climate change, Klein argues, is a civilizational wake-up call, a powerful message delivered in the language of fires, floods, storms, and droughts. Confronting it is no longer about changing the light bulbs. It’s about changing the world—before the world changes so drastically that no one is safe. ??Either we leap—or we sink.