The main book yet from the author from the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, an excellent explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core “free marketplace” ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems.

In a nutshell, either we accept radical change ourselves or radical changes will be visited upon our physical world. The status quo is no more an option.

In This Changes Everything Naomi Klein argues that climate concerning this Adjustments Everything: Capitalism vs. The Environment change isn’t just another issue to be neatly submitted between taxes and health care. It’s an security alarm that calls us to repair an economic climate that is currently failing us in many ways. Klein meticulously builds the situation for how massively reducing our greenhouse emissions is normally our best opportunity to simultaneously decrease gaping inequalities, re-imagine our damaged democracies, and rebuild our gutted regional economies. She exposes the ideological desperation from the climate-change deniers, the messianic delusions from the would-be geoengineers, and the tragic defeatism of too many mainstream green initiatives. And she demonstrates the key reason why the market offers not-and cannot-fix the climate crisis but will rather make things worse, with a lot more severe and ecologically harming extraction methods, followed by rampant disaster capitalism.

Klein argues which the changes to your relationship with nature and one another that are required to respond to the climate crisis humanely shouldn’t be considered grim penance, but rather as some sort of gift-a catalyst to transform broken economic and cultural priorities also to heal long-festering historical wounds. And she paperwork the inspiring movements that have already begun this technique: communities that aren’t just refusing to become sites of additional fossil fuel removal but are building another, regeneration-based economies right now.

Can we pull off these changes in time? Nothing is specific. Nothing except that weather change changes everything. And for a very brief time, the nature of that change continues to be up to us.