#1 international and New York Times bestselling author Naomi Klein author of The Shock
Doctrine and This Changes Everything makes the case for a Green New Deal-explaining how bold
climate action can be a blueprint for a just and thriving society. For more than twenty years
Naomi Klein has been the foremost chronicler of the economic war waged on both people and
planet-and an unapologetic champion of a sweeping environmental agenda with justice at its
center. In lucid elegant dispatches from the frontlines of contemporary natural disaster she
pens surging indispensable essays for a wide public: prescient advisories and dire warnings of
what future awaits us if we refuse to act as well as hopeful glimpses of a far better future.
On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal gathers for the first time more than a decade
of her impassioned writing and pairs it with new material on the staggeringly high stakes of
our immediate political and economic choices. These long-form essays show Klein at her most
prophetic and philosophical investigating the climate crisis not only as a profound political
challenge but as a spiritual and imaginative one as well. Delving into topics ranging from the
clash between ecological time and our culture of perpetual now to the soaring history of
humans changing and evolving rapidly in the face of grave threats 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 reports spanning from the ghostly Great Barrier Reef to the annual
smoke-choked skies of the Pacific Northwest to post-hurricane Puerto Rico to 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. An expansive far-ranging exploration that sees the battle for a
greener world as indistinguishable from the fight for our lives On Fire captures the burning
urgency of the climate crisis as well as the fiery energy of a rising political movement
demanding a catalytic Green New Deal.
