This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

by Naomi Klein

When climate justice wins we win the world that we want. We can’t sit this one out, not because we have too much to lose but because we have too much to gain. … We are bound together in this battle, not just for a reduction in the parts per million of CO2, but to transform our economies and rebuild a world that we want today.”68

“How can you persuade the human race to put the future ahead of the present?” asked Observer columnist Nick Cohen despondently.69 The answer is that you don’t. You point out, as Yoshitani does, that for a great many people, climate action is their best hope for a better present, and a future far more exciting than anything else currently on offer.