Author and activist
Naomi Klein is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker whose books, including No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, and This Changes Everything, have shaped global debates on corporate power, capitalism, and climate justice. She is the UBC Professor of Climate Justice and founding co-director of the UBC Centre for Climate Justice.
by Naomi Klein
Klein argues that the climate crisis cannot be addressed without confronting the logic of deregulated capitalism that created it. Drawing on reporting from around the world, she makes the case that climate action is humanity's best chance to simultaneously fix an economic system that is failing the majority.
The books Naomi Klein references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Rachel Carson
Carson's 1962 expose revealed how pesticides were silently poisoning ecosystems and human health. The book launched the modern environmental movement and led to the DDT ban.
by Jared Diamond
Diamond investigates why some societies collapse while others endure, tracing destruction to environmental damage and failed group decision-making. The past warns the present.
by Donella Meadows
Meadows explains how systems, from economies to ecosystems, behave through feedback loops, stocks, and flows. Most interventions fail because we address symptoms rather than the underlying structure driving the problem.
Who Naomi draws from, and who draws from Naomi — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.