Highest praise and sound insight from respected writer Naomi Klein, whose new book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate came out today. The hero of the book is quite clearly the global grassroots climate justice movement which has been building its nerve (and nerve centers) despite being largely ignored—and often ridiculed—by those who have resolved to largely shrug off the growing crisis of global warming since it first entered the public consciousness in the 1980s. What Klein and others have come to call Blockadia—the resistance movement that has been blocking pipelines, opposing new extraction projects, and quite willingly putting bodies on the line—is the moral antidote to world leaders who have repeatedly crumbled before the pressures exerted by the fossil fuel industry, the promise of unfettered trade, and the mantra of free marketeers.
Posted on: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 19:26:43 +0000