{"id":1764,"date":"2014-11-18T14:16:38","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T19:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1764"},"modified":"2014-11-18T14:16:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T19:16:38","slug":"naomi-kleins-this-changes-everything-a-review-transition-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1764","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Klein&#8217;s &#8216;This Changes Everything&#8217;: a review | Transition Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transitionnetwork.org\/blogs\/rob-hopkins\/2014-11\/naomi-kleins-changes-everything-review\">Naomi Klein&#8217;s &#8216;This Changes Everything&#8217;: a review | Transition Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px 10px 0px 10px;\">Reading a Naomi Klein book is always a deeply absorbing experience.\u00a0 In a sense, the sheer size of them means you have no choice other than to be absorbed (<em>This Changes Everything<\/em>\u00a0runs to almost 600 pages).\u00a0 Her two previous masterworks,\u00a0<em>No Logo<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The Shock Doctrine<\/em>\u00a0were mind-altering and life-changing for me.\u00a0\u00a0<em>This Changes Everything<\/em>is Klein\u2019s climate change book.\u00a0 It is a powerful, deeply felt, painstakingly-researched book which takes the reader on an incredible journey and makes a radical yet common-sense case.\u00a0 So why is it that by the end I felt underwhelmed?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px 10px 0px 10px;\">There is much about the book that is fantastic.\u00a0 She brilliantly unpicks the complexities of our headlong plunge into climate chaos. She destroys the \u201causterity or extraction\u201d myth, reframing it as \u201cpoverty or poisoning\u201d.\u00a0 She sets out the passionate case that:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"border-left-width: 5px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: #dce1da; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: italic; color: #444444; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 10px 30px 10px 30px;\">\n<p style=\"padding: 0px 10px 0px 10px;\">\u201cclimate change is, in fact, a massive job creator, as well as a community rebuilder, and a source of hope in moments when hope is a scarce commodity indeed\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px 10px 0px 10px;\">She identifies capitalism, in particular our current what she calls \u201cextractivist\u201d version, as the central driver of the crisis, but argues that climate change should be the rallying call around which the alternative is built.\u00a0 We\u2019ve tried it the neo-liberals\u2019 way for the last 20 years, she says, and \u201cthe soaring emissions speak for themselves\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px 10px 0px 10px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naomi Klein&#8217;s &#8216;This Changes Everything&#8217;: a review | Transition Network. Reading a Naomi Klein book is always a deeply absorbing experience.\u00a0 In a sense, the sheer size of them means you have no choice other than to be absorbed (This Changes Everything\u00a0runs to almost 600 pages).\u00a0 Her two previous masterworks,\u00a0No Logo\u00a0and\u00a0The Shock Doctrine\u00a0were mind-altering and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[111,1230,1228,1229],"class_list":["post-1764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","tag-capitalism","tag-climate-chaos","tag-naomi-klein","tag-this-changes-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1765,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions\/1765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}