Analysis Of Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs The Climate

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Naomi Klein is a well-known Canadian Journalist that has written for The Rolling Stone, The Guardian, New York Times and many other well-known publishing companies. Naomi Klein is also a well-known writer of the books This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate (2014). This book debates about climate change and how it is not an issue that should be as ignored as it is. Fixing the issue will not only reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve conditions it will also help in economic ways (Klein 2014). A restoration of our connection with nature will make us appreciate that which we have found a way to numb (Klein 2014). Naomi also talks about the green projects that are making an impact, those that are not and how we are changing fossil …show more content…

As we learned in class our temperature is rising, over the past 100 years the temperature has been rising15-35 times faster than in previous times in history. Many people take a stance on believing that there is no climate change crisis that everything is just normal, just as it should be however our water levels are rising, our temperatures are not constant. We are having deforestation crisis overload, CO2 emissions are through the roof, our carbon footprint is nowhere close to what it is supposed to be. Not only are we ruining the environment but we are dealing with the crisis of a materialistic world, we have factories that put employees in dangerous conditions with little pay and benefits. We consume in such high amounts our landfills aren’t even suitable enough to sustain our trash. We are far from a reduce, reuse, recycle society we are more of an increase, waste and throw out kind of group. Naomi focuses on these issues and wants to change the way we look at the world especially climate change.
One of the movements Naomi has partaken in and is considered one of the boards of directors in is 350.org this group focuses on a movement that focuses on Global Climate change. They are called the 350 because their goal is to reduce CO2 emissions from 400 parts per million to below 350. The organization 350 took place in fighting the movement such as coal power plants in India, another great accomplishment has been Keystone pipelines and other fossil fuel industry related

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