This Changes Everything

Publicado el 6 de noviembre de 2014 por Simon & Schuster.

ISBN:: 978-1-4516-9738-4

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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 does 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 …

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 does 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.

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Vincent Tijms reseñó This Changes Everything de Naomi Klein

Most important book of the year

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Originally on Goodreads (November 2014):

Probably the most important book of the year. Climate change challenges anyone's pet ideology: it makes Marxists doubt their utopian materialism, forces laissez-faire capitalists to consider the peculiarities of externalities and makes anarchists wonder whether mutualist instincts are strong enough to deal with invisible, delayed forms of exploitation.

Klein argues for a planned economy, but like most contemporary socialists she subscribes to a rather anarchic, decentralized system to uphold norms like carbon emissions and tax fossil fuel burners. The details are sketchy - Klein unfortunately prefers a sophomoric discussion of Baconian thought to an in-depth look at how you can empower the State without reinforcing clientelism - but the general idea makes sense.

If anything, Klein conveys the urgency of the climate challenge. Right-wing populism has ensured that we are already too late and that environmental disasters are much worse than they could have been. …

Originally on Goodreads (November 2014):

Probably the most important book of the year. Climate change challenges anyone's pet ideology: it makes Marxists doubt their utopian materialism, forces laissez-faire capitalists to consider the peculiarities of externalities and makes anarchists wonder whether mutualist instincts are strong enough to deal with invisible, delayed forms of exploitation.

Klein argues for a planned economy, but like most contemporary socialists she subscribes to a rather anarchic, decentralized system to uphold norms like carbon emissions and tax fossil fuel burners. The details are sketchy - Klein unfortunately prefers a sophomoric discussion of Baconian thought to an in-depth look at how you can empower the State without reinforcing clientelism - but the general idea makes sense.

If anything, Klein conveys the urgency of the climate challenge. Right-wing populism has ensured that we are already too late and that environmental disasters are much worse than they could have been. If your political flavor of choice does not prevent worsening of the current situation, you might just as well throw it out of the window.