This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate Audiobook (Free)

The most important book yet from the writer from the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core “free market” ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems.

In short, either we embrace radical change ourselves or radical changes will be visited upon our physical world. The status quo is no more an option.

In This Changes Everything Naomi Klein argues that climate concerning this Adjustments Everything: Capitalism vs. The Weather change isn’t yet another issue to become neatly filed between taxes and health care. It’s an alarm that phone calls us to repair an economic system that is currently failing us in lots of ways. Klein meticulously builds the case for how massively reducing our greenhouse emissions is certainly our best opportunity to simultaneously reduce gaping inequalities, re-imagine our broken democracies, and restore our gutted local economies. She exposes the ideological desperation from the climate-change deniers, the messianic delusions of the would-be geoengineers, and the tragic defeatism of too many mainstream green initiatives. And she demonstrates the key reason why the market provides not-and cannot-fix the climate problems but will rather make things worse, with ever more extreme and ecologically harming extraction methods, accompanied by rampant disaster capitalism.

Klein argues the changes to your relationship with nature and each other that are required to respond to the environment crisis humanely should not be viewed as grim penance, but instead as some sort of gift-a catalyst to transform broken economic and cultural priorities also to heal long-festering historical wounds. And she records the inspiring movements that have already begun this technique: communities that aren’t just refusing to become sites of further fossil fuel extraction but are building another, regeneration-based economies right now.

Can we pull off these changes with time? Nothing is particular. Nothing at all except that climate change changes everything. And for a very short time, the nature of that change continues to be up to us.