The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine
a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core free market
ideology of our time restructure the global economy and remake our political systems. In
short either we embrace radical change ourselves or radical changes will be visited upon our
physical world. The status quo is no longer an option. In This Changes Everything Naomi Klein
argues that climate change isn't just another issue to be neatly filed between taxes and health
care. It's an alarm that calls us to fix an economic system that is already failing us in many
ways. Klein meticulously builds the case for how massively reducing our greenhouse emissions is
our best chance to simultaneously reduce gaping inequalities re-imagine our broken democracies
and rebuild our gutted local economies. She exposes the ideological desperation of the
climate-change deniers the messianic delusions of the would-be geoengineers and the tragic
defeatism of too many mainstream green initiatives. And she demonstrates precisely why the
market has not?and cannot?fix the climate crisis but will instead make things worse with ever
more extreme and ecologically damaging extraction methods accompanied by rampant disaster
capitalism. Klein argues that the changes to our relationship with nature and one another that
are required to respond to the climate crisis humanely should not be viewed as grim penance
but rather as a kind of gift?a catalyst to transform broken economic and cultural priorities
and to heal long-festering historical wounds. And she documents the inspiring movements that
have already begun this process: communities that are not just refusing to be sites of further
fossil fuel extraction but are building the next regeneration-based economies right now. Can
we pull off these changes in time? Nothing is certain. Nothing except that climate change
changes everything. And for a very brief time the nature of that change is still up to us.
