Hit the word on warming

The text continues the project on the Ecology "Variable" .

Author: Naomi Klein

To: those who want to finally figure out everything

Naomi Klein herself describes his book as follows: "A book about climatic changes for people who do not read books about climatic changes." This is true: the book is not about climate. More precisely, not only about climate. She is about Klein's favorite topic - about the dark secrets of free capitalism.

The first book by Naomi Klein “No Logo” became a real manifesto of the movement of anti -globalism and alternerlobalism (this is when not only against the values ​​of Western liberalism, but also for justice). Then the "Doctrine of Shock. The heyday of the capitalism of disasters ”(book and almost literal documentary) continued to expose modern capitalism.

The next large-scale investigation in 500 pages explains in detail that the former chief economist of the World Bank Nicholas Stern once said in one proposal: that climate change can be considered the greatest example of market failure, when capitalism cannot solve the problem of environmental protection.

“Capitalism against the climate” is a table book for everyone who is already in the subject (the number of arguments here goes off scale), and an excellent introduction to the topic for those who had previously attributed the problems of ecology to something distant, for hippies and vegan. After the book, there are simply no questions. “Violation of the rights of nature and violation of human rights are always in the kit,” says Klein. And the book helps to fold all the elements of the puzzle in a rather shocking picture.

It is best in this book that after a couple of hundred pages of the confrontation, Klein focuses on the fact that the climatic crisis can serve as a catalyst for huge, but positive social transformations. True, this will require a completely different economic system. Not agreements and restrictions, abbreviations of emissions and vague hopes for geoenzhinering (large -scale intervention in the climatic system to “cool” it) or a flight to Mars. This means the abolition of the very idea of ​​endless economic growth. Small measures, it seems, cannot be done. What Klein learned in the process of investigation for the book, according to her, "changes everything." Just as “everything” will change global warming.

Husband Naomi Klein, director Evi Lewis, immediately after the release of the book began to make a documentary . He counts on those who have not read the book (those who read, already know everything). The producers of the film were Pamela Anderson, Danny Glover, Viviennu Westwood, Alfonso Koaron (by the way, he shot advertising-short-circuit for the “shock doctrine” and did this for Klein completely free) and many other celebrities.

And although Klein herself once said that “I saw the future, and it looks like the new Orleans after the hurricane“ Katrina ”, and the book and the film managed not to turn into an apocalyptic sermon, but leave a desire to hope for something and do something else.