This changes everything : capitalism vs. the climate /

Klein, Naomi, 1970-

This changes everything : capitalism vs. the climate / Capitalism vs. the climate Capitalism versus the climate Naomi Klein. - First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition. - New York : Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 2014. - x, 564 pages ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

One way or another, everything changes. Bad timing. The right is right : the revolutionary power of climate change ; Hot money : how free market fundamentalism helped overheat the planet ; Public and paid for : overcoming the ideological blocks to the next economy ; Planning and banning : slapping the invisible hand, building a movement ; Beyond extractivism : confronting the climate denier within -- Magical thinking. Fruits, not roots : the disastrous merger of big business and big green ; No messiahs : the green billionaires won't save us ; Dimming the sun : the solution to pollution is ... pollution? -- Starting anyway. Blockadia : the new climate warriors ; Love will save this place : democracy, divestment, and the wins so far ; You and what army? : indigenous rights and the power of keeping our word ; Sharing the sky : the atmospheric commons and the power of paying our debts ; The right to regenerate : moving from extraction to renewal -- Conclusion: The leap years : just enough time for impossible. Introduction: Part I. Part II. Part III.

Explains why the environmental crisis should lead to an abandonment of "free market" ideologies and current political systems, arguing that a massive reduction of greenhouse emissions may offer a best chance for correcting problems.

9781451697384 (cloth) 1451697384 (cloth) 9781451697391 (paperback) 1451697392 (paperback)

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Environmental economics.
Environmental policy--Economic aspects.
Climatic changes--Economic aspects.
Global environmental change--Economic aspects.
Capitalism.

HC79.E5 / K56 2014

363.738/74