![]() Following on from her 2007 book, The Shock Doctrine, a timely and powerful exposé of the environmental and social devastation wrought by neoliberal policies of “ shock therapy”, Klein interprets the marginalisation of climate change in the political process as the result of the machinations of corporate elites. Governments have backed off from previous climate commitments, and environmental concerns have slipped down the policy agenda to a point at which in many contexts they are treated as practically irrelevant.įor Klein none of this is accidental. Yet the political response has been at best ambiguous and indecisive. ![]() As a result of human activities, large-scale climate change is under way, and if it goes on unchecked it will fundamentally alter the world in which humans will in future have to live. There is not much reasonable doubt as to the findings of science on the subject. ![]() ![]() “It is always easier to deny reality,” writes Naomi Klein, “than to allow our worldview to be shattered, a fact that was as true of diehard Stalinists at the height of the purges as of libertarian climate deniers today.” Much of this book is concerned with showing that powerful and well-financed rightwing thinktanks and lobby groups lie behind the denial of climate change in recent years. This Changes Everything is as much about the psychology of denial as it is about climate change. ![]()
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