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This changes everything : capitalism vs. the climate

By: Klein, Naomi, 1970-
Material type: BookPublisher: UK : Penguin Books, c2014.Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.Description: viii, 566 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9780241956182Subject(s): Environmental economics | Environmental policy -- Economic aspects | Climatic changes -- Economic aspects | Global environmental change -- Economic aspects | Capitalism | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / Economics | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic PolicyDDC classification: 363.73874 KL CH Online resources: Location Map
Summary:
Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon - it's about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better. This is a book that redefines its era.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-525) and index.

Introduction : One Way Or Another, Everything Changes -- The Right is Right : The Revolutionary Power of Climate Change -- Hot Money: How Free Market Fundamentalism Helped Overheat the Planet -- Public and Paid For : Overcoming the ideological blocks to the next economy -- Planning and Banning : Slapping the Invisible Hand, Building a Movement -- Beyond Extractivism: Confronting the Climate Denier Within -- Fruits, not roots : the disastrous merger of big business and big green -- No Messiahs : The Green Billionaires Won't Save Us -- Dimming the sun: the solution to pollution is... pollution? -- Blockadia : The New Climate Warriors -- Love Will Save This Place : democracy, divestment and the wins so far -- You and What Army? : Indigenous rights and The Power of Keeping our Word -- The Right to Regenerate : moving From Extraction to Renewal -- Conclusion : The Leap Years : Just Enough Time for Impossible.

Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon - it's about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better. This is a book that redefines its era.

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