![]() ![]() Importantly, too, her stirring accounts of indigenous resistance and of global environmental justice organizing especially in communities of color are useful antidotes to the savior complex afflicting many lead environmentalists. ![]() Large mainstream environmental NGOs also come under her critical gaze. With great clarity, Klein helps audiences and readers debunk technological quick fixes for climate change and the oxymoronic green capitalism. For the first time too, one suspects, many of her audiences will hear that their movement ought also to be a movement against social and global inequality, for Third World-debt relief, for reparations, and for honoring treaties with the indigenous. Only one of these sets of rules can be changed, and it's not the laws of nature " (21). What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction in humanity's use of resources what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion. ![]() The Climate (hereafter TCE): " …our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. Barnstorming through the US and Canada, speaking to audiences of thousands at a time, with almost unparalleled media access for a self-declared anti-capitalist thinker, Naomi Klein amplifies the central message of her brilliant and rousing cri de guerre, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. ![]()
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