Hot off the press, Naomi Klein's new book THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING: CAPITALISM V. THE CLIMATE - I've only read the intro as I write here - strikes me as talking about climate change in the only context that may relieve our pain (too late to save us ), we need a more communal economic and social ideology in order to respond in rapid and effective ways, that our political leaders in the west have failed us, so change must come from the grass roots, quickly, a revolutionary challenge to the control of wealth and resources.
I think she is right.
But I also think this has no chance of happening, that by the time great numbers of comfortable citizens are ready to act it will be in defense of personal property at a higher level of crisis. Masses of citizens are not ready to save the planet. Later they will try to save whatever they can in food and water riots.
But Klein nails the reality of this crisis. Its subtext and root truth are about ideology. It IS capitalism v. climate, and capitalism is winning hands down.
I think she is right.
But I also think this has no chance of happening, that by the time great numbers of comfortable citizens are ready to act it will be in defense of personal property at a higher level of crisis. Masses of citizens are not ready to save the planet. Later they will try to save whatever they can in food and water riots.
But Klein nails the reality of this crisis. Its subtext and root truth are about ideology. It IS capitalism v. climate, and capitalism is winning hands down.
