#1 international and NY Times bestselling author Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and This Adjustments Everything, makes the case to get a Green New Deal—explaining how daring climate action could be a blueprint for any just and thriving culture.

For more than two decades, Naomi Klein continues to be the foremost chronicler of the economic battle waged on both people and globe—and an unapologetic champion of the sweeping environmental agenda with justice at its middle. In lucid, elegant dispatches about On Fire: The Case for the Green New Offer in the frontlines of contemporary natural catastrophe, she pens surging, essential essays for a broad general public: prescient advisories and dire warnings of what potential awaits us if we won’t act, as well as hopeful glimpses of the far better potential. On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal gathers for the very first time more than a decade of her impassioned composing, and pairs it with fresh material within the staggeringly high stakes of our instant political and economic choices.

These long-form essays present Klein at her most prophetic and philosophical, looking into the environment crisis not only as a deep political problem but as a religious and imaginative one, as well. Delving into topics ranging from the clash between ecological period and our lifestyle of “perpetual now,” towards the soaring history of human beings changing and changing rapidly when confronted with grave risks, to rising white supremacy and fortressed borders as a form of “weather barbarism,” that is a rousing proactive approach for a planet around the brink.

With reports spanning in the ghostly Great Hurdle Reef, to the annual smoke-choked skies from the Pacific Northwest, to post-hurricane Puerto Rico, to a Vatican attempting an unprecedented “ecological conversion,” Klein makes the case that people will rise to the existential challenge of climate change only if we are willing to transform the systems that produced this crisis.

An expansive, far-ranging exploration that views the battle for any greener world as indistinguishable from the fight for our lives, BURNING captures the burning urgency from the weather crisis, aswell as the fiery energy of a rising political movement challenging a catalytic Green New Deal.