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New York Times bestselling author Naomi Klein, author of The Shock
Doctrine and This Changes Everything, makes the case for a Green New
Deal—explaining how bold climate action can be a blueprint for a
just and thriving society.
For more than twenty
years, Naomi Klein has been the foremost chronicler of the economic
war waged on both people and planet—and an unapologetic champion of
a sweeping environmental agenda with justice at its center. In lucid,
elegant dispatches from the frontlines of contemporary natural
disaster, she pens surging, indispensable essays for a wide public:
prescient advisories and dire warnings of what future awaits us if we
refuse to act, as well as hopeful glimpses of a far better future. On
Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal gathers for the first
time more than a decade of her impassioned writing, and pairs it with
new material on the staggeringly high stakes of our immediate
political and economic choices.
These long-form
essays show Klein at her most prophetic and philosophical,
investigating the climate crisis not only as a profound political
challenge but as a spiritual and imaginative one, as well. Delving
into topics ranging from the clash between ecological time and our
culture of “perpetual now,” to the soaring history of humans
changing and evolving rapidly in the face of grave threats, to rising
white supremacy and fortressed borders as a form of “climate
barbarism,” this is a rousing call to action for a planet on the
brink.
With reports
spanning from the ghostly Great Barrier Reef, to the annual
smoke-choked skies of the Pacific Northwest, to post-hurricane Puerto
Rico, to a Vatican attempting an unprecedented “ecological
conversion,” Klein makes the case that we will rise to the
existential challenge of climate change only if we are willing to
transform the systems that produced this crisis.