In them she finds hope for a grass-roots rebellion, a kind of “People’s Shock” where push back against the aggressive energy industry can be a catalyst for advancing a range of policies dear to the progressive agenda. “Blockadia,” she calls these places, where communities have risen to oppose open-pit mining, fracking and pipelines. But this always-interesting polemic is built mostly on her interviews with experts, environmentalists and activists and her colorful on-site reporting from various international meetings and conferences and particularly from worldwide pockets of resistance to corporate bullying.

In part, Klein’s narrative is a personal story about her own awakening to and increasing engagement with the climate issue. Carbon emissions continue to rise, and greenhouse gases dangerously accumulate as the fossil fuel industry ramps up devastating extraction. We will not be saved by toothless international agreements, spurious political bargains, outlandish geoengineering environmental groups in bed with corporations or magical thinking of any kind-and surely not by deregulating the capitalist system responsible for the crisis. The time for marginal fixes has expired, writes Klein ( The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, 2007, etc.). A best-selling anti-globalization activist and author argues that surviving the climate emergency will require radical changes in how we live.

This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein