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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

Naomi Klein

Start date: September 1, 2015

Finish date: November 30, 2015

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May 18, 2015 Kathleen (itpdx) rated it really liked it

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It took me awhile to read this for two reasons. One, there is much to digest and think about. And two, there are sections that made me so angry that I had to take a break. Klein looks at climate change and why it has been so difficult for us to address it. Everything from finding the problem so overwhelming that we ignore it, to waiting for a technological solution, to hoping a billionaire will ride to our rescue, to having to find a way around the free market ideology that causes entrenched pol ...more

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Oct 10, 2015 Kate S rated it liked it

Shelves: non-fiction, 2015

This was an interesting look at the world and some of its problems. The ideas in this book occasionally made me angry (as they were designed to do). Climate change and the human footprint on the planet is a big deal and I am not going to argue about that. The solutions this author offers are over the top in a way it will be hard to implement.

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Nov 15, 2022 Bucket rated it liked it

Shelves: technology, reviewed, non-fiction, history, politics, nature-the-outdoors, economics, science, life-and-death, time

I should have read this back when it came out in 2014 because it's already quite dated. Climate change has moved fast, plus this book has no knowledge of Trump, COVID-19, Ukraine and other factors that make it certainly seem falsely hopeful at the end.

The beginning of the book was basically a survey of the current (2014) climate change landscape, and I almost decided to stop reading in favor of something published more recently. I probably should have, but the next few chapters delved into the h ...more

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Jan 16, 2016 Cindie rated it liked it

Shelves: winter-src-15-16

Interesting and horrifying...but not a fast read...compelling facts and time line of the publicizing of climate change in the U.S. media...and the disappointing narrative of the many missed opportunities to turn it around without major upheaval...

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