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On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein
reflective
5.0
This book is pretty iconic, ngl. I read this after finishing (and being ever-so-slightly disappointed by) This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate.
It delivered on all the things I'd wished This Changes Everything had had:
-that Greta Thunberg cut-the-crap energy I'd wanted, no more naïveté
-a comprehensive/collective liberation oriented environmental strategy, a Green New Deal that began as Klein’s own Leap Manifesto in Canada.
It seems that developing the Leap Manifesto grounded her activism. I particularly appreciated how each chapter had been written in chronological order with the date at the top because I could witness that grounding taking place.
And I truly think she’s onto something for one simple reason: the Canadian government tried to shut her down so hard. They even brought out Brian Mulroney to oppose her (Canada’s 80s-era neo-con; our Thatcher or Reagan). Who I totally thought had been not alive for decades 😅
This wasn’t an abstract environmentalism book. It felt mature and concrete—and all the more radical for that.
It delivered on all the things I'd wished This Changes Everything had had:
-that Greta Thunberg cut-the-crap energy I'd wanted, no more naïveté
-a comprehensive/collective liberation oriented environmental strategy, a Green New Deal that began as Klein’s own Leap Manifesto in Canada.
It seems that developing the Leap Manifesto grounded her activism. I particularly appreciated how each chapter had been written in chronological order with the date at the top because I could witness that grounding taking place.
And I truly think she’s onto something for one simple reason: the Canadian government tried to shut her down so hard. They even brought out Brian Mulroney to oppose her (Canada’s 80s-era neo-con; our Thatcher or Reagan). Who I totally thought had been not alive for decades 😅
This wasn’t an abstract environmentalism book. It felt mature and concrete—and all the more radical for that.