On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal Audiobook (Free)

#1 international and NY Times bestselling author Naomi Klein, writer of The Shock Doctrine which Adjustments Everything, makes the case for a Green New Deal—explaining how bold climate action can be a blueprint for any simply and thriving culture.

For more than two decades, Naomi Klein continues to be the foremost chronicler from the economic war waged on both people and planet—and an unapologetic champ of a sweeping environmental plan with justice at its center. In lucid, elegant dispatches about BURNING: THE SITUATION for the Green New Offer in the frontlines of contemporary natural disaster, she pens surging, indispensable essays for a wide general public: prescient advisories and dire warnings of what future awaits us if we refuse to act, aswell as hopeful glimpses of the far better potential. On Fire: The (Burning up) Case for the Green New Deal gathers for the very first time more than a 10 years of her impassioned writing, and pairs it with brand-new material over the staggeringly high stakes of our immediate political and financial choices.

These long-form essays present Klein at her most prophetic and philosophical, looking into the weather crisis not only like a serious political problem but being a religious and imaginative one, aswell. Delving into topics ranging from the clash between ecological time and our lifestyle of “perpetual now,” towards the soaring history of human beings changing and growing rapidly in the face of grave risks, to rising white supremacy and fortressed edges as a kind of “climate barbarism,” that is a rousing call to action for a planet for the brink.

With reports spanning through the ghostly Great Barrier Reef, to the annual smoke-choked skies from the Pacific Northwest, to post-hurricane Puerto Rico, to a Vatican trying an unprecedented “ecological transformation,” Klein makes the case that we will rise to the existential challenge of climate alter only when we are willing to transform the systems that produced this crisis.

An expansive, far-ranging exploration that views the battle for any greener globe as indistinguishable through the fight for our lives, BURNING captures the burning up urgency from the climate crisis, as well as the fiery energy of the rising political motion challenging a catalytic Green New Deal.