THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING by Naomi Klein (Allen Lane, 2013)
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding” – Upton Sinclair.
Alternative titles to this brave and important book could have been ‘Everything Must Change’, ‘Everything is Fucked’ or even more despairingly, The End Is Nigh.
Whatever way you look at the situation that Naomi Klein presents, it is clear that humanity is well and truly up shit creek climate-wise.
It would nice to report that this book also provides us with some metaphorical paddles but, sadly, this is not the case.
Klein presents the scale of the problem but in terms of solutions ultimately offers only a faith in the essential resilience of the human spirit. Continue reading
