Reddit reviews This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

My problem is that Saudi Arabia has "legally" beheaded 26 individuals since August 4th, 2014! With friends like that... FFS

Edit: The Shock Doctrine was excellent. Her new book looks very promising, as well: This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

You might be interested in the books of Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine and her latest This Changes Everything

I think what has not helped the cause is that, in the 70's...scientists were saying that global cooling was a danger. In the 80's... it was the hole in the ozone layer. In the 90's...it became global warming. Then it became climate change...now it's "climate disruption."

There were dire predictions made that have not come to fruition.

Most of us, I think, are in favor of exploring all energy options. We don't agree with the government funneling money to alt energy companies that end up going bankrupt.

We are not in favor of people arguing that the capitalist system needs to be dismantled and all the wealth needs to be taken from people who have it.

http://www.amazon.com/This-Changes-Everything-Capitalism-Climate/dp/1451697384

We don't understand why the USA, which is working to become more Earth friendly, is the focus of the hatred when other nations are pumping way more pollution into the world.

I guess, in short, I don't like it that science has gotten into bed with politics.

Also ... some in the green movement seem to be incredibly cruel. There's been talking about criminalizing "deniers."

When you decide that [this](http://www.youtube.com /watch?v=zR73mcZW7B4) is an effective case for your cause...you might have some issues.

Thanks for the recommendation. Also, I've heard that Naomi Klein's new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate is good.

> Also ridding yourself of simple black and white solutions. Such as believing greed, malevolence and stupidity just disappearing when everyone is given a fair share.

Capitalism is a system which encourages greed and exploitation down to its core. Contemporary leftists are campaigning against the standard of living divide between sweat-shop conditions and top-1% wealth. If anyone thinks that the existence of these two dichotomies, as stark as the differences are, are in any way ethical, then their beliefs are absurd. We're not fighting against ending greed and malevolence - just economic and social justice and equality.

> Nothing about capitalism defies the sustainability of the environment.

https://www.amazon.de/This-Changes-Everything-Capitalism-Climate/dp/1451697384

Mountaintop-removal mining programs, fishing industries, carbon pollution, auto-industries, unsustainable corporate agriculture brought to you by Tyson and Monsanto - you name it. Capitalism and the culture of consumption is going to destroy swaths of the planet within the century, and pro-establishment politicians are entirely ignoring it.

Capitalism.

If you say, "well hey now, all the technology you're enjoying? Yeah, capitalism buddy ... or Hey, all the benefits of modern culture? Yeah, capitalism" you completely miss the point.

The profit-motive is completely unsustainable as Naomi Klein just laid out in her new book