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This Changes Nothing: Climate Change Inevitable Under Capitalism
Thursday, June 2, 2016 at 1:28PM Naomi Klein’s most recent book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate (2014) comes at a time when the discussion of climate change and its impacts is constant and growing. Capitalists come together to make phony promises to reduce carbon emissions and slow the climate shifts while perpetuating the myth that individual workers are responsible for the condition of the planet.
Klein’s book has become something of a “bible” for the movement against anthropogenic (human-caused) global warming (AGW). Klein appears to attack the economic system as a whole. It’s a well-written book, but at the same time a very bad book—good on describing the problem but bad on providing a real solution.
Klein makes some good points: she describes the consequences of AGW, including extreme weather events, flooding, wildfires, heat waves, and sea level rise, and she explains why poor Black, Latin, Asian, and immigrant workers of the world are hurt the most. Klein explained that burning coal, oil, and natural gas is currently the main cause of AGW and that huge corporations (e.g., ExxonMobil) profit while the rest of us suffer the consequences. She relates AGW to surface features of capitalism, including, perhaps the most useful, how the laws passed to facilitate global world trade directly prevent any government from lessening AGW.
