This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate - Naomi Klein Audiobook
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NOTE: In the beginning of the part 2 MP3, a part of chapter 7 is missing. To read this part, you can find the ebook on Library Genesis.
The most important book yet from the author of 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 longer an option.
In This Changes Everything Naomi Klein argues that climate change isn’t just another issue to be neatly filed between taxes and health care. It’s an alarm that calls us to fix an economic system that is already failing us in many ways. Klein meticulously builds the case for how massively reducing our greenhouse emissions is our best chance to simultaneously reduce gaping inequalities, re-imagine our broken democracies, and rebuild our gutted local economies. She exposes the ideological desperation of 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 precisely why the market has not—and cannot—fix the climate crisis but will instead make things worse, with ever more extreme and ecologically damaging extraction methods, accompanied by rampant disaster capitalism.
Klein argues that the changes to our relationship with nature and one another that are required to respond to the climate crisis humanely should not be viewed as grim penance, but rather as a kind of gift—a catalyst to transform broken economic and cultural priorities and to heal long-festering historical wounds. And she documents the inspiring movements that have already begun this process: communities that are not just refusing to be sites of further fossil fuel extraction but are building the next, regeneration-based economies right now.
Can we pull off these changes in time? Nothing is certain. Nothing except that climate change changes everything. And for a very brief time, the nature of that change is still up to us.
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This post has 22 comments with rating of 4/5
January 6th, 2020
A terrific book from one of the great writers of our era. It’s a beautiful thing to see it here and know people will be listening, learning, and becoming better members of society because of it.
January 6th, 2020
Communism vs environment tends to be far worse. The Soviet Union and China’s industrialization completely disregarded environmental conservation. China remains a major polluter of the oceans and the air — far more so than the U.S. At least in democratic capitalist states, groups opposing environmental degradation are not suppressed. Chernobyl poisoned swathes of Europe, an accident which the Soviets tried to cover up while its immediate population were being poisoned.
Climate change begins with individual responsibility, not simply “evil” capitalists. For example, this author could have chosen to only release digital copies of her book, but instead has added to her carbon footprint with all the transport and manufacturing involved in distributing paperbacks. She is also a capitalist making a profit from this fantasy fiction.
January 6th, 2020
When “Communism was polluting”, people were dying of smog in London too.
China has brought green energy and solar panels to billions in its circle of influence (which means everywhere except the USA) while US companies are pushing fracking and shale gas to everyone without a conscience. People in Flint, Michigan are still without clean water. Let that sink in.
January 6th, 2020
This rating is to offset the crazy people that think that selling a few solar panels somehow compensates for the environmental catastrophe that is China.
Also, capitalism is far more likely to provide a solution to environmental issues than communism, socialism or any other kind of -ism. Oddly, profits incentivize people to fix stuff. That’s how the human race works.
January 6th, 2020
@Audiobooks — do your research:
“China’s emissions passed those of the U.S. in 2005, and by 2012 had surpassed the combined contribution of both the U.S. and the EU. Should recent trends continue, China will be responsible for the most atmospheric carbon dioxide in less than 20 years.”
China has the capitalist West to thank for the invention of green energy like solar panels.
Source: Forbes article:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2018/07/01/china-emits-more-carbon-dioxide-than-the-u-s-and-eu-combined/#2fb950d7628c
January 6th, 2020
Klien once stated to the New Yorker, “my grandparents were hard-core Marxists.” She’s like B. Sanders,anti-capitalist” capitalist.
Another pro global warming advocate, as long as it doesn’t change her life style. No different that A. Gore, Hollywood elites, and the rest of the BS’ers.
May as well read Marx then this tripe.
A misandrist in the vein of all haters of men.
January 6th, 2020
Yeah, that’s all very well, Naomi, but what about The Day Before The Day After Tomorrow?
Of course, we could dust off the old Bat Signal.
Or there’s always celebrities - ever a source of effective, selfless ideas.
We could cover Kimye’s ass in solar panels, just as a potential back-door strategy?
On a related issue: how often do you hear someone admit that they just do not know?
January 6th, 2020
God, you have to be exceptionally stupid to play the blame game with China on climate change. The way you look at carbon emissions is by looking at ‘emissions per capita’. And when you look at that, ‘USA’ pollutes far more than China (China is 8 tons per capita while US and Canada are over 16) and it is because the Americans can’t stop buying stuff they don’t really need.
The kind of capitalist US practices is extremely harmful to the environment because it doesn’t care about anyone or anything except the shareholder. If you want a better world, adopt a fairer version of capitalism, the one practiced by Western Europe (especially Germany).
January 7th, 2020
@paratusboitellem: If you are comparing the CO2 pollution generated by countries it makes no sense to simply compare per capita rates. Population size is obviously an essential factor in overall pollution. Incidentally, China has surpassed the EU in per capita pollution, so your false comparison does little to mitigate China’s culpability.
Regarding plastic pollution of the oceans, China is one of the main culprits:
“By analyzing the waste found in the rivers and surrounding landscape, researchers were able to estimate that just 10 river systems carry 90% of the plastic that ends up in the ocean.
Eight of them are in Asia: the Yangtze; Indus; Yellow; Hai He; Ganges; Pearl; Amur; Mekong; and two in Africa – the Nile and the Niger.”
You will notice that none of the river systems in the efficient, capitalist West are on the list.
Source:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/90-of-plastic-polluting-our-oceans-comes-from-just-10-rivers/
January 7th, 2020
Thanks alot. If only you got the unabridged version of the shock doctrine?
January 7th, 2020
The comments above are odd. The argument seems to be that if you are all driving off a cliff then no-one should try steering away unless everyone else does. That seems like madness.
The book by the way, while confused in places does try to identify problems and look at alternatives. Not a bad attempt. Worth a read.
January 7th, 2020
@bakermx: The only odd comment is yours. Which comment(s) argue or even suggest that nothing should be done? You need to cite an example of one of the alternatives suggested in the book so we can decide if it is a practical one and if the book is worth a read.
January 7th, 2020
For the latest change, see Australia, but don’t fall for the ‘new normal’ meme, because in a handful of years it’ll look like the good ole days. Most still don’t seem to get the enormity of the physics in play & much more is baked in. Nothing can stop it. In addition, there are dozens of self reinforcing positive feedback loops (science speak for vicious circle) underway & they can’t be stopped either & the models & projections only account for a few of them. CC is nonlinear so you can count on it speeding up. Naomi’s book is pointless politics which is useless. It’s unsolvable, because it’s caused by human behaviour which is a product of evolution which itself is dictated by the laws of thermodynamics. Preparing on the personal & community level is about the only realistic option left. No nation & few individuals are giving up their energy advantage. Why? Because your evolutionary programming & the laws of thermodynamics say so.
Here is a basic primer.
“The purpose of life is to disperse energy”
https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10674
January 7th, 2020
Good points, ap, it’s the tragedy of the commons writ crazy.
January 7th, 2020
It’s China’s fault (responsibility). It’s America’s fault (responsibility). The whole back and forth is dumbfounding. The reality is (unless you have your science-denial head in the sand) is that climate change is real, it’s here, and human activity is a huge driver of it. Yes, China’s carbon footprint is growing. But it invests twice as much in renewable energy as the United States, a third of what’s been invested in the last ten years. The U.S., for all its belief in free market solutions, is going in exactly the opposite direction. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-05/clean-energy-investment-is-set-to-hit-2-6-trillion-this-decade And for those of you who believe the “free market” will solve all problems, not even Adam Smith argued that unfettered markets were an unbridled source of good. https://aeon.co/essays/we-should-look-closely-at-what-adam-smith-actually-believed Honestly, I can’t believe I entered this debate of free market kool-aid drinkers and climate change deniers.
January 8th, 2020
@ghiaurov321: I see no comments denying climate change, nor comments solely blaming one country. Learn to read a thread before you embarrass yourself.
The article you cite further emphasizes the growing carbon footprint of China and other Eastern states vs the capitalist West:
“China led the way in buying wind and solar plants BUT ALSO POURED MONEY INTO NEW COAL POWER GENERATION UNITS.
Europe and the U.S. have closed down coal plants, but that has been offset by an increase in Asia, especially in India.”
You also fail to concede that green solutions are almost entirely pioneered in the West — just another contribution by the free market system that provides incentive to do so.
I also do not see any comments claiming that the free market will solve all problems, but any fool can see that it is infinitely more efficacious than communist panned economies which can not even produce enough food to feed populaces (China’s famines under Mao, Ukranian famines under Stalin, Venezuela’s collapsed economy, etc).
January 9th, 2020
I’ve been called a Nazi-Racist every time say Trump’s rally speeches are “funny” by family, friends and workmates.
So I had no choice but to resist such vial and evil hate and instead support Trump.
Miserable Liberals have turned into raging balls of hate after a long history of spreading love and peace and free speech. Now they fight against free speech and kiss the asses of the old establishment.
Why did this happen? I miss the old progressives.
January 9th, 2020
I see the climate change deniers have added “It’s all China’s fault, so we MUST keep fracking or they will win!” to their talking points.
January 10th, 2020
@Gweilo: You are a mental defective.
January 10th, 2020
@Gweilo: I am guessing that you are at least part Chinese from the looks of your photo. You obviously hate Anglo Saxons given your constant bigoted comments and your refusal to change your racist name, “Gweilo” being a derogatory Cantonese term for light-skinned Westerners. I will continue to call you out on this until you change it. In the meantime, learn to read the threads before you insist something has been said which hasn’t. You will be less embarrassing.
October 28th, 2021
I don’t understand the vitriol against Klein here. Her book in no way exculpates China’s system, any more than it lets standard corporate capitalism off the hook. She clearly names the fact that China is the world’s largest present GHG emitter and that getting China to reduce its emissions is key. She cites a source (end of Ch. 3) as saying that China and India also “need to be cutting emissions at an unprecedented 7 per cent” a year by 2025. So Klein is most definitely not talking about giving China et al. an “emit whatever forever” permit. All serious (e.g., scientific) climate-change literature, from the IPCC on down, acknowledges the role of China and other developing countries.
Klein also takes notice of the complicating fact that emissions from _making stuff for us_ in China are assigned, in lumped country-level emissions totals, to China: so when China builds me a laptop, the emissions are attributed to China, not to my country (the US). If one includes such embedded carbon imports and exports, China is the world’s largest CO2 net exporter and the US its largest net importer: and “a 9% increase in domestic US emissions since 1990 turns out to be a 17% increase when trade is included” (as of 2017, https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-worlds-largest-co2-importers-exporters). From 2002 to 2008, 48% of China’s total emissions were driven by producing goods for export: and as of 2012 (study published 2020), 14.6% of annual Chinese GHG emissions were still directly in support of exports (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15883-9). China’s emissions are, to a significant extent, ours. And vice versa.
With no Planet B in view, nationalistic squabbling over who budges first is suicidal. We need right now to be fielding and standardizing, and mass-deploying the technologies and practices that will eventually move the whole planet’s emissions towards where they need to be — not because they radiate virtue but because they are irresistibly more efficient, safe, sustainable, cheap. A case in point, over 90% of global utility-scale newbuild power generation capacity worldwide was wind or solar in 2020 — because cost (https://www.esgtoday.com/iea-renewables-to-account-for-90-of-global-power-capacity-increases-as-growth-shatters-expectations/).
July 31st, 2023
The book draws to a conclusion through a discussion on the connection between consumption and climate change; highlighting China’s rising emissions due to their production of goods consumed by the western world. In This Changes Everything, Klein presents a dystopian status quo of “climate change fuelled disaster capitalism – profiteering disguised as emission reduction, privatized hyper-militarized borders, and quite possibly, high-risk geoengineering when things spiral out of control” (p.155) and suggests that “we are all in the sacrifice zone now”. However, she leaves us with the glimmer of hope that climate justice movements and social mobilisation can offer an alternative future: proposing the lifeline idea that “the truth is that there is no business as usual” and that we can determine our own path to change.
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