![]() ![]() We must now all become environmentalists. I agree, these issues are too important to be left to so-called “environmentalists”, “hippies”, “tree-huggers” and such. After speaking about her own reluctance to face the facts about climate change, a reticence to confront the reality of climate change and global warming and focus on social issues, she decided a few years ago that she must confront it and learn about it. Our globalized capitalistic system now threatens the stability and resilience of the natural world, our environment, of which we are intrinsically and inseparably a part. Deregulated and globalized capitalism, which destroys the middle classes across the world, destabilizes societies, increases inequality, and enriches the already fantastically wealthy, is ultimately threatening a lot more than people and communities. With this, her newest book, This Changes Everything, she turns to the consequences that this unrestricted capitalism is having on the world at large. Protect shareholder interests, increase shareholder wealth. Naomi Klein is known for her activism and her reporting on corporate malfeasance – the misused power of corporations, and the deleterious effects of unfettered global free-market western-style capitalism unchained from any conceivable governance that might restrict profitability. Naomi’s Klein’s This Changes Everything is absolutely essential for understanding, confronting, and meeting the challenges of the 21st century. This Changes Everything is a book that will redefine our era. It's about changing the world, before the world changes so drastically that no one is safe. In fact, all around the world, the fight back is already succeeding in ways both surprising and inspiring. You have also been told that humanity is too greedy and selfish to rise to this challenge. ![]() You have been told it's impossible to get off fossil fuels when in fact we know exactly how to do it-it just requires breaking every rule in the 'free-market' playbook. You have been told the market will save us, when in fact the addiction to profit and growth is digging us in deeper every day. In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein, author of the global bestsellers Shock Doctrine and No Logo, exposes the myths that are clouding climate debate. The good news is that we can seize this crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better. It's not about carbon-it's about capitalism. Forget everything you think you know about global warming. ![]()
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