naomi klein this changes everything sparknotes

Klein argues in effect for System Change Not Climate Change-the name adopted by the current ecosocialist movement in the United States. We as a species will either radically change the material conditions of our existence or they will be changed far more drastically for us. Hence, the change that Klein is most concerned with, and to which her book points, is not climate change itself, but the radical social transformation that must be carried out in order to combat it. It is now doing so on a planetary scale, destroying in the process the earth as a place of human habitation.

The source of this closing circle is not the planet, which operates according to natural laws, but rather the economic and social system in which we live, which treats natural limits as mere barriers to surmount.

It threatens to turn the mythical human conquest of nature on its head, endangering present-day civilization and throwing doubt on the long-term survival of Homo sapiens. All of which is clearly meant to convey in no uncertain terms that climate change literally changes everything for today’s society. It is only when we look at the spine of the book, turn it over, or open it to the title page that we see it is written by North America’s leading left climate intellectual-activist and that the subtitle is Capitalism vs. Both the author’s name and the subtitle are absent. It consists of the title alone in big block letters, with the emphasis on Changes. The front cover of Naomi Klein’s new book, This Changes Everything, is designed to look like a protest sign. (Republished, with permission, from Monthly Review, February 2015) The liberal attack on Naomi Klein and This Changes Everything Brett Clark is associate professor of sociology at the University of Utah and co-author of The Tragedy of the Commodity (Rutgers University Press, forthcoming). John Bellamy Foster is editor of the independent socialist magazine Monthly Review (subscription highly recommended!) and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon.

Naomi klein this changes everything sparknotes