'Naomi Klein's work has always moved and guided me. She is the great chronicler of our age of
climate emergency an inspirer of generations' - Greta Thunberg For more than twenty years
Naomi Klein's books have defined our era chronicling the exploitation of people and the planet
and demanding justice. On Fire gathers for the first time more than a decade of her impassioned
writing from the frontline of climate breakdown and pairs it with new material on the
staggeringly high stakes of what we choose to do next. Here is Klein at her most prophetic and
philosophical investigating the climate crisis not only as a profound political challenge but
also as a spiritual and imaginative one. Delving into topics ranging from the clash between
ecological time and our culture of 'perpetual now ' to rising white supremacy and fortressed
borders as a form of 'climate barbarism ' this is a rousing call to action for a planet on the
brink. With dispatches from the ghostly Great Barrier Reef the smoke-choked skies of the
Pacific Northwest post-hurricane Puerto Rico and a Vatican attempting an unprecedented
'ecological conversion ' Klein makes the case that we will rise to the existential challenge of
climate change only if we are willing to transform the systems that produced this crisis. This
is the fight for our lives. On Fire captures the burning urgency of the climate crisis as well
as the energy of a rising political movement demanding change now.
