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This changes everything : capitalism vs. the climate / Naomi Klein.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: UK : Penguin Books, 2015.Description: 566 p. ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
ISBN:
  • 9780241956182
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.738
Contents:
Pt. 1. Bad timing -- Ch. 1. The right is right: the revolutionary power of climate change -- Ch. 2. Hot money: how free market fundamentalism helped overheat the planet -- Ch. 3. Public and paid for: overcoming the ideological blocks to the next economy -- Ch. 4. Planning and banning: slapping the invisible hand, building a movement -- Ch. 5. Beyond extractivism: confronting the climate denier within -- Pt. 2. Magical thinking -- Ch. 6. Fruits, not roots: the disastrous merger of big business and big green -- Ch. 7. No messiahs: the green billionaires won't save us -- Ch. 8. Dimming the sun: the solution to pollution is ... pollution? -- Pt. 3. Starting anyway -- Ch. 9. Starting anyway: Blockadia: the new climate warriors -- Ch. 10. Love will save this place: democracy, divestment, and the wins so far -- Ch. 11. You and what army? Indigenous rights and the power of keeping our word -- Ch. 12. Sharing the sky: the atmospheric commons and the power of paying our debts -- Ch. 13. The right to regenerate: moving from extraction to renewal -- Conclusion: The leap years: Just enough time for impossible.
Summary: Despite mounting scientific evidence, climate change denial is surging in many wealthy countries, and fossil-fuel extraction has gathered pace. Naomi Klein exposes the work of ideologues who know the difficulties this poses to the free market, and challenges the failing strategies of environmental groups.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1. Bad timing --
Ch. 1. The right is right: the revolutionary power of climate change --
Ch. 2. Hot money: how free market fundamentalism helped overheat the planet --
Ch. 3. Public and paid for: overcoming the ideological blocks to the next economy --
Ch. 4. Planning and banning: slapping the invisible hand, building a movement --
Ch. 5. Beyond extractivism: confronting the climate denier within --
Pt. 2. Magical thinking --
Ch. 6. Fruits, not roots: the disastrous merger of big business and big green --
Ch. 7. No messiahs: the green billionaires won't save us --
Ch. 8. Dimming the sun: the solution to pollution is ... pollution? --
Pt. 3. Starting anyway --
Ch. 9. Starting anyway: Blockadia: the new climate warriors --
Ch. 10. Love will save this place: democracy, divestment, and the wins so far --
Ch. 11. You and what army? Indigenous rights and the power of keeping our word --
Ch. 12. Sharing the sky: the atmospheric commons and the power of paying our debts --
Ch. 13. The right to regenerate: moving from extraction to renewal --
Conclusion: The leap years: Just enough time for impossible.

Despite mounting scientific evidence, climate change denial is surging in many wealthy countries, and fossil-fuel extraction has gathered pace. Naomi Klein exposes the work of ideologues who know the difficulties this poses to the free market, and challenges the failing strategies of environmental groups.

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