And the solution to global warming is not to fix the world, it is to fix ourselves.” “The earth is not our prisoner, our patient, our machine, or, indeed, our monster.

We need to fix ourselves, not fix the world. Instead, Klein argues, we need to break free of market fundamentalism and implement long-term planning, strict regulation of business, more taxation, more government spending and reversals of privatization to return key infrastructure to public control.Ģ. In the process, carbon trading schemes have helped corporations make billions - allowing them to directly profit off the degradation of the planet.

For instance, Klein argues that carbon trading programs create perverse incentives, allowing manufacturers to produce more harmful greenhouse gases, just to be paid to reduce them. In her drawn-out critique of corporate involvement in climate change prevention, she demonstrates how profitable “solutions” put forward by many think-tanks (and their corporate backers) actually end up making the problem worse. To Klein, such strategies are too little, too late. Much of the conversation surrounding climate change focuses on what Klein dismisses as “Band-Aid solutions”: profit-friendly fixes like whizz-bang technological innovations, cap-and-trade schemes and supposedly “clean” alternatives like natural gas. Because we know where the current system, left unchecked, is headed.” “Only mass social movements can save us now. Klein argues that carbon trading programs create perverse incentives, allowing manufacturers to produce more harmful greenhouse gases, just to be paid to reduce them. This Changes Everything is well worth a read (or two) in full, but we’ve distilled some of its key points here. She certainly isn’t alone in pointing out the urgency of the threat, but what sets Klein apart is her argument that it is capitalism - not carbon - that is at the root of climate change, inexorably driving us toward an environmental Armageddon in the pursuit of profit. the Climate (due in stores September 16), Klein casts her gaze toward the future, arguing that the dangers of climate change demand radical action now to ward off catastrophe.

But in her new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. In her previous books The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism ( 2007) and NO LOGO: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs ( 2000), Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein took on topics like neoliberal “shock therapy,” consumerism, globalization and “disaster capitalism,” extensively documenting the forces behind the dramatic rise in economic inequality and environmental degradation over the past 50 years.

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