In the past, best-selling author Naomi Klein has brilliantly laid out the case against corporate culture and globalization and our slavish subservience to marketers and brand culture in the book “No Logo”.
Her follow-up “Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism” was another international best-seller.
In her new book, she says we’ve now gone beyond that with our economic models and into the most dangerous waters ever. The book is called “This Changes Everything” and the subtitle is “Capitalism vs the Climate”
ListenIn the book she says climate change represents a clear and present danger to humanity.
While wars, and disease and economic collapse are major crises, none of that matters as we continue to alter the climate and worsen humanity’s living conditions.
She says its become an existential crisis. It’s not so much about carbon, its about the economic model that is behind so much carbon production.
In the book she argues that the current capitalist model promotes the damage to our environment, and its mindset prevents governments from acting on the critical issue of mitigating climate change.
Ms Klein also says the whole capitalist notion that growth of the ecomony spreads down throughout the population is also a myth, as evidenced by the ever-widening gap between the few ultra-rich and the increasingly shrinking middle class, and ever growing poor. The idea that markets will save us is in reality only digging us in deeper
She says climate change needs to be dealt with now, and the people need to force a change in the entire economic model, to change this “free market” ideal that has been promoted for so loudly and so long, but which has led us into this looming climate crisis.
In her book she says it is absolutely possible to break away from fossil fuels, and globalization and the damaging free market ideal. It simply takes people to realize the seriousness of what we are doing to the earth around us and reclaim democracies to rein in corporate multinational culture, and rebuild local economies and a healthier more equitable, less polluting mentality and society.
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