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This changes everything : capitalism vs. the climate / Naomi Klein.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 2014.Edition: First Simon & Schuster trade paperback editionDescription: x, 564 pages ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781451697384 (cloth)
  • 1451697384 (cloth)
  • 9781451697391 (paperback)
  • 1451697392 (paperback)
Other title:
  • Capitalism vs. the climate
  • Capitalism versus the climate
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 363.738/74
LOC classification:
  • HC79.E5 K56 2014
Contents:
Introduction: One way or another, everything changes. Part I. 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 -- Part II. 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? -- Part III. 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.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: One way or another, everything changes. Part I. 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 -- Part II. 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? -- Part III. 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.

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.

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