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Audible Narration: Ready Language: English'Naomi Klein's work has always moved and guided me. She is the great chronicler of our age of climate emergency, an inspirer of generations' - Greta Thunberg
For more than twenty years Naomi Klein's books have defined our era, chronicling the exploitation of people and the planet and demanding justice. On Fire gathers for the first time more than a decade of her impassioned writing from the frontline of climate breakdown, and pairs it with new material on the staggeringly high stakes of what we choose to do next.
For more than twenty years Naomi Klein's books have defined our era, chronicling the exploitation of people and the planet and demanding justice. On Fire gathers for the first time more than a decade of her impassioned writing from the frontline of climate breakdown, and pairs it with new material on the staggeringly high stakes of what we choose to do next.
Here is Klein at her most prophetic and philosophical, investigating the climate crisis not only as a profound political challenge but also as a spiritual and imaginative one. Delving into topics ranging from the clash between ecological time and our culture of 'perpetual now,' to rising white supremacy and fortressed borders as a form of 'climate barbarism,' this is a rousing call to action for a planet on the brink.
With dispatches from the ghostly Great Barrier Reef, the smoke-choked skies of the Pacific Northwest, post-hurricane Puerto Rico and a Vatican attempting an unprecedented 'ecological conversion,' Klein makes the case that we will rise to the existential challenge of climate change only if we are willing to transform the systems that produced this crisis.
This is the fight for our lives. On Fire captures the burning urgency of the climate crisis, as well as the energy of a rising political movement demanding change now.
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3.0 out of 5 stars It's not about a Green New DealReviewed in Australia on 31 October 2019
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I tried to read this, but it doesn't live up to the title. Whilst there is some good work in it about a Green New Deal, it is superficial and I wish the whole book had been dedicated to this much needed topic. It makes random and at times ethically questionable connections to current affairs like the Christchurch massacre, to support what is largely a rhetorical argument of stirring prose but little else. It's a long way from the seminal No Logo written 20 years ago.
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Christopher Meder
5.0 out of 5 stars Best book of the year!Reviewed in Australia on 30 December 2019
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Best book I've read in years! What a refreshing read, free of cognitive biases, deflections and excuses. Very apt analogies and social commentaries that cuts through layers of misinformation and conservatives posturing. Not just a sobering book but also one offering possible path forward.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The case for a Green New Deal is compellingReviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 October 2019
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Astonishingly it is 20 years since Naomi Klein wrote No Logo which focused on the how big brands simultaneously control the lives of consumers in the developed world and exploit workforces in the poorer countries who manufacture their products. This shook many people into action and affected the public profile of at least some of the global companies who adjusted their ways as a result.
Naomi Klein is now focused on wider issues associated with the climate change emergency and, in this book, she echoes the voice of Greta Thunberg (who was not even born when No Logo came out), to appeal for us all to act as if this was an emergency. Klien calls for a Green New Deal similar to FD Roosevelt's New Deal in the 1930's that turned the United States from the depths of economic depression to a global superpower in less than a generation. The book consists of a series of essays that Klein has written between 2016 and 2019 in response to the current issues and, in particular, the obvious candidates who are the non believers who continue to plough on with destructive fossil fuels.
The case for a Green New Deal is compelling and this book is as relevant as anything written on the subject of the climate emergency. If this book is as successful as No Logo in changing both public perception and that of those in power then there might just be a chance. We live in hope.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good read but lackingReviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 December 2019
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I enjoy reading Naomi Klein but I know I will be getting into something invariably polemical. It is true that current economic growth paradigm is not sustainable, but I do not believe the current model is best described as ‘neoliberal’, certainly not outside America. nor is there much evidence that the government is the leading light for change. Most of the world is already some kind of mixed economy. And the ‘corporations bad, government good’ line (also 'globalism bad, localism good') doesn’t bare basic scrutiny. Of the top 100 CO2 polluting organisations in the world (responsible for 70% co2 emissions), the majority are state owned. This suggests ownership structures (private vs public) is not the crux of the issue.
Her praise of Germany's energy transition policy shows a blatant disregard for facts. Germany committed to shutting down nuclear following Fukushima (again this fits with her ideological opposition to nuclear), and 'localism' (which she favours) has put meant no onshore wind is currently being built because the NIMBYs do not want it. Germany has contributed nothing to decarbonisation since 2010. She glosses over the slow pace of coal shutdowns in Germany as if it's a minor footnote with only passing relevance to her main point. It is not. Further, the reason coal is being shutdown slowly is to support employment in the coal sectors, and to manage the socio-economic implications of the transition for real people. In her world, this conflict simply does not exist.
Compare Germany with the UK strategy, which barely gets a mention. This is largely private sector and markets based (with highly successful auction based subsidy regime for renewables), and with legally enshrined decarbonisation targets. UK (and other European) offshore wind subsidies have largely paid for development of the technology, now being developed globally. Again, the innovation is being delivered by large, profit-seeking corporations. The government is providing market structure but it is not delivering the investment or the change.
I guess the biggest question for me is what political structure she is actually advocating. What if there is no democratic mandate for the kind of change she thinks is required?
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strangefruit
5.0 out of 5 stars An important book about climate CrisisReviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 October 2019
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Why is Climate Crisis happening, what can we do, what are the options? Why the systems of the western world have to change for the sake of our very existence on the planet. Why the Crisis is as much a crisis of capitalism as of Climate, the two intertwined. Klein's clear and un-fussy language gives you the information up to the date the book was published.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant bookReviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 October 2019
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This seems to be a collection of transcriptions of talks Naomi Klein has given over the past few years. She addresses the many causes for our current climate crisis and outlines some solid ways we can pull ourselves back from the brink. If only everyone would read this book maybe we could all pull together because that's what's needed.
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5.0 out of 5 stars She's on fireReviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 January 2020
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20 years ago No Logo woke me up. Klein is back to tackle her favourite subject — the Climate Crisis and Corporate & Government negligence. She’s on fire, especially when sharing stories of those unfairly impacted by the crisis. A continual, powerful voice in the world.
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