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reatschetter 's review for:
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
by Naomi Klein
This book will make you angry. The question is whether it will be an anger directed at the author for daring to suggest that, in order to have any hope of mitigating climate change, we need to halt our extraction of fossil fuels and radically change the ways in which we look at the interconnectedness of the world, or whether it will be an anger at the seemingly insurmountable task set before us and the odds that are stacked against the climate.
If I had one quibble with this book...and it is neither the fault of the book or the author, it's that in such a rapidly changing world this book dates itself quickly. Published in 2014, the book references many situations that, had I not been on a deadline to return the book to the library, really required some time with Google to determine where things stand 6 years later. So, if you read this book (and really, you should), read it with the understanding that the data may be outdated, and that victories written about may have been reversed, and that new protests have had their day (most notably, the Standing Rock protests, which occurred 3 years after publication).
While this was an incredibly depressing choice to read during a pandemic, Klein doesn't leave us without hope. Like Pandora's box, the last few chapters contain glimmers of hope still clinging tenaciously. A return to environmental activism sparked by love of the land. A willingness to work in harmony with nature rather than seek to control it. The possibilities are entirely within our grasp, we only need the will to reach for them.
If I had one quibble with this book...and it is neither the fault of the book or the author, it's that in such a rapidly changing world this book dates itself quickly. Published in 2014, the book references many situations that, had I not been on a deadline to return the book to the library, really required some time with Google to determine where things stand 6 years later. So, if you read this book (and really, you should), read it with the understanding that the data may be outdated, and that victories written about may have been reversed, and that new protests have had their day (most notably, the Standing Rock protests, which occurred 3 years after publication).
While this was an incredibly depressing choice to read during a pandemic, Klein doesn't leave us without hope. Like Pandora's box, the last few chapters contain glimmers of hope still clinging tenaciously. A return to environmental activism sparked by love of the land. A willingness to work in harmony with nature rather than seek to control it. The possibilities are entirely within our grasp, we only need the will to reach for them.