This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

by Naomi Klein

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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.

Published:: 2014
Pages:: 576

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In this collection, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate references 3 other books.

It draws on Silent Spring, Collapse and Thinking in Systems.

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Extends Carson's pioneering critique of industrial interests overriding environmental safety to the global scale of fossil fuel capitalism

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Silent Spring

by Rachel Carson

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Builds on Diamond's analysis of how societies fail to respond to environmental threats, applying it to the political economy of climate inaction

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Collapse

by Jared Diamond

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Uses Meadows' systems thinking to show how economic growth imperatives create feedback loops that lock in carbon emissions

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Thinking in Systems

by Donella Meadows

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Silent Spring

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Guns, Germs, and Steel

The Origin of Species

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