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About Naomi Klein
This Changes Everything was an instant New York Times bestseller and is being translated into over 25 languages. Nominated for multiple awards, it won the 2014 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. The documentary inspired by the book, and directed by Avi Lewis, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2015.
Since This Changes Everything was published, Klein's primary focus has been on putting its ideas into action. She is one of the organizers and authors of Canada's Leap Manifesto, a blueprint for a rapid and justice-based transition off fossil fuels. The Leap has been endorsed by over 200 organizations, tens of thousands of individuals, and has inspired similar climate justice initiatives around the world.
In November 2016 she was awarded Australia's prestigious Sydney Peace Prize, for, according to the prize jury, "exposing the structural causes and responsibility for the climate crisis, for inspiring us to stand up locally, nationally and internationally to demand a new agenda for sharing the planet that respects human rights and equality, and for reminding us of the power of authentic democracy to achieve transformative change and justice."
Klein is a member of the board of directors for climate-action group 350.org. In 2015, she was invited to speak at the Vatican to help launch Pope Francis's historic encyclical on ecology, Laudato si'.
In 2017, Klein became Senior Correspondent for The Intercept. She is also a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute and contributor to the Nation Magazine. Recent articles have also appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, the London Review of Books and Le Monde.
She has multiple honourary degrees and in 2014 received the International Studies Association's IPE Outstanding Activist-Scholar award.
In June 2017, she will be releasing a new book called No is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need.
www.noisnotenough.org
Twitter: NaomiAKlein
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In short, either we embrace radical change ourselves or radical changes will be visited upon our physical world. The status quo is no longer an option.
In This Changes Everything Naomi Klein argues that climate change isn’t just another issue to be neatly filed between taxes and health care. It’s an alarm that calls us to fix an economic system that is already failing us in many ways. Klein meticulously builds the case for how massively reducing our greenhouse emissions is our best chance to simultaneously reduce gaping inequalities, re-imagine our broken democracies, and rebuild our gutted local economies. She exposes the ideological desperation of the climate-change deniers, the messianic delusions of the would-be geoengineers, and the tragic defeatism of too many mainstream green initiatives. And she demonstrates precisely why the market has not—and cannot—fix the climate crisis but will instead make things worse, with ever more extreme and ecologically damaging extraction methods, accompanied by rampant disaster capitalism.
Klein argues that the changes to our relationship with nature and one another that are required to respond to the climate crisis humanely should not be viewed as grim penance, but rather as a kind of gift—a catalyst to transform broken economic and cultural priorities and to heal long-festering historical wounds. And she documents the inspiring movements that have already begun this process: communities that are not just refusing to be sites of further fossil fuel extraction but are building the next, regeneration-based economies right now.
Can we pull off these changes in time? Nothing is certain. Nothing except that climate change changes everything. And for a very brief time, the nature of that change is still up to us.
Warmer temperatures. Fires in the Amazon. Superstorms. These are just some of the effects of climate change that we are already experiencing.
The good news is that we can all do something about it. A movement is already underway to combat not only the environmental effects of climate change but also to fight for climate justice and make a fair and livable future possible for everyone. And young people are not just part of that movement, they are leading the way. They are showing us that this moment of danger is also a moment of great opportunity—an opportunity to change everything.
Full of empowering stories of young leaders all over the world, this information-packed book from award-winning journalist and one of the foremost voices for climate justice, Naomi Klein, offers young readers a comprehensive look at the state of the climate today and how we got here, while also providing the tools they need to join this fight to protect and reshape the planet they will inherit.
The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global "free market" has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq
In her groundbreaking reporting over the past few years, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism." Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic "shock treatment," losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers.
The Shock Doctrine retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in so many parts of the world from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq.
At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. Klein argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years.
The election of Donald Trump is a dangerous escalation in a world of cascading crises. Trump’s vision—a radical deregulation of the US economy in the interest of corporations, an all-out war on “radical Islamic terrorism,” and a sweeping aside of climate science to unleash a domestic fossil fuel frenzy—will generate wave after wave of crises and shocks, to the economy, to national security, to the environment.
In No Is Not Enough, Naomi Klein explains that Trump, extreme as he is, is not an aberration but a logical extension of the worst and most dangerous trends of the past half-century. In exposing the malignant forces behind Trump’s rise, she puts forward a bold vision for a mass movement to counter rising militarism, nationalism, and corporatism in the United States and around the world.
Longlisted for the National Book Award
“I hope that Klein’s book is read by more than just her (mostly) leftwing fan base. For whatever you think about her economic arguments, she makes a powerful and an important point: that you cannot understand Trump without looking at how he reflects bigger cultural and social dynamics. And what is perhaps refreshing about No Is Not Enough is that Klein tries to move beyond mere outrage and hand-wringing to offer a practical manifesto for opposition.” —Financial Times
“Brims with ideas rarely heard in the mainstream media. And her fiery, punchy writing style, which is occasionally laced with humor, makes it hard to put down.” —The Georgia Straight
An instant bestseller, On Fire shows Klein at her most prophetic and philosophical, investigating the climate crisis not only as a profound political challenge but also as a spiritual and imaginative one. Delving into topics ranging from the clash between ecological time and our culture of “perpetual now,” to the soaring history of humans changing and evolving rapidly in the face of grave threats, to rising white supremacy and fortressed borders as a form of “climate barbarism,” this is a rousing call to action for a planet on the brink.
An expansive, far-ranging exploration that sees the battle for a greener world as indistinguishable from the fight for our lives, On Fire captures the burning urgency of the climate crisis, as well as the fiery energy of a rising political movement demanding a catalytic Green New Deal.
“Naomi Klein’s work has always moved and guided me. She is the great chronicler of our age of climate emergency, an inspirer of generations.” —Greta Thunberg, climate activist
"If I were a rich man, I’d buy 245 million copies of Naomi Klein’s 'On Fire' and hand-deliver them to every eligible voter in America…Klein is a skilled writer." —Jeff Goodell, The New York Times
NO LOGO was an international bestseller and "a movement bible" (The New York Times). Naomi Klein's second book, The Shock Doctrine, was hailed as a "master narrative of our time," and has over a million copies in print worldwide.
In the last decade, No Logo has become an international phenomenon and a cultural manifesto for the critics of unfettered capitalism worldwide. As America faces a second economic depression, Klein's analysis of our corporate and branded world is as timely and powerful as ever.
Equal parts cultural analysis, political manifesto, mall-rat memoir, and journalistic exposé, No Logo is the first book to put the new resistance into pop-historical and clear economic perspective. Naomi Klein tells a story of rebellion and self-determination in the face of our new branded world.
“We are in a fight for our lives. Hurricanes Irma and María unmasked the colonialism we face in Puerto Rico, and the inequality it fosters, creating a fierce humanitarian crisis. Now we must find a path forward to equality and sustainability, a path driven by communities, not investors. And this book explains, with careful and unbiased reporting, only the efforts of our community activists can answer the paramount question: What type of society do we want to become and who is Puerto Rico for?” —Carmen Yulín Cruz, Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico
In the rubble of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans and ultrarich “Puertopians” are locked in a pitched struggle over how to remake the island. In this vital and startling investigation, bestselling author and activist Naomi Klein uncovers how the forces of shock politics and disaster capitalism seek to undermine the nation’s radical, resilient vision for a “just recovery.”
All royalties from the sale of this book in English and Spanish go directly to JunteGente, a gathering of Puerto Rican organizations resisting disaster capitalism and advancing a fair and healthy recovery for their island.
“Klein chronicles the extraordinary grassroots resistance by the Puerto Rican people against neoliberal privatization and Wall Street greed in the aftermath of the island’s financial meltdown, of hurricane devastation, and of Washington’s imposition of an outside control board over the most important U.S. colony.” —Juan González, cohost of Democracy Now! and author of Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
Durante más de veinte años, Naomi Klein ha sido la cronista más importante de la guerra económica que se ha librado contra las personas y el planeta, y ha defendido incansablemente un plan ecológico de gran alcance cuyo eje principal es la justicia. Entre sus elegantes reportajes, escritos desde la primera línea de catástrofes naturales contemporáneas, encontramos una serie de ensayos intensos e indispensables para el público que nos traen advertencias proféticas y urgentes sobre el futuro que nos espera si nos negamos a actuar, así como destellos de esperanza por un futuro mucho mejor. En llamas reúne, por primera vez, más de una década de sus apasionados artículos y material inédito sobre las abrumadoras consecuencias de nuestras elecciones políticas y económicas inmediatas.
Estos extensos artículos nos muestran la versión más profética y filosófica de Klein, quien investiga la crisis climática no solo como un profundo desafío político sino también como un reto espiritual e imaginativo. Profundiza en asuntos que abarcan desde el conflicto entre el tiempo ecológico y nuestra cultura del «ahora perpetuo» hasta la inspiradora historia de la capacidad de los humanos de cambiar y evolucionar rápidamente cuando se enfrentan a graves amenazas, pasando por el ascenso de la supremacía blanca y las fronteras convertidas en fortalezas como una forma de «barbarie climática», en lo que constituye una llamada a la acción para salvar a un planeta que se encuentra al borde del abismo.
Con crónicas desde la fantasmal Gran Barrera de Coral o los cielos sofocados por el humo año tras año en el noroeste del Pacífico, desde un Puerto Rico azotado por un huracán o un Vaticano que trata de instigar una «conversión ecológica» sin precedentes, Klein nos dice que solo lograremos estar a la altura del reto existencial planteado por el cambio climático si estamos dispuestos a transformar los sistemas que han provocado esta crisis.
Estas páginas son una investigación de gran alcance que considera que la lucha por un mundo más sostenibleno puede separarse de la lucha por nuestras vidas. Así, En llamas captura la sofocante urgencia de la crisis climática, así como la ardiente energía de un movimiento político en alza que exige un catalítico Green New Deal.
La doctrina del shock es la historia no oficial del libre mercado. Desde Chile hasta Rusia, desde Sudáfrica hasta Canadá la implantación del libre mercado responde a un programa de ingeniería social y económica que Naomi Klein identifica como «capitalismo del desastre». Tras una investigación de cuatro años, Klein explora el mito según el cual el mercado libre y global triunfó democráticamente, y que el capitalismo sin restricciones va de la mano de la democracia. Por el contrario, Klein sostiene que ese capitalismo utiliza constantemente la violencia, el choque, y pone al descubierto los hilos que mueven las marionetas tras los acontecimientos más críticos de las últimas cuatro décadas. Klein demuestra que el capitalismo emplea constantemente la violencia, el terrorismo contra el individuo y la sociedad. Lejos de ser el camino hacia la libertad, se aprovecha de las crisis para introducir impopulares medidas de choque económico, a menudo acompañadas de otras forma de shock no tan metafóricas: el golpe de la prra de los policías, las torturas con electroshocks o la picana en las celdas de las cárceles.
En este relato apasionante, narrado con pulso firme, Klein repasa la historia mundial reciente (de la dictadura de Pinochet a la reconstrucción de Beirut; del Katrina al tsunami; del 11-S al 11-M, para dar la palabra a un único protagonista: las diezmadas poblaciones civiles sometidas a la voracidad despiadada de los nuevos dueños del mundo, el conglomerado industrial, comercial y gubernamental para quien los desastres, las guerras y la inseguridad del ciudadano son el siniestro combustible de la economía del shock. « Naomi Klein denuncia la estafa de las políticas económicas de la Escuela de Chicago y su conexión con el caos y el derramamiento de sangre por todo el mundo. Éste es un libro tan importante que se convertirá en un catalizador y un punto de inflexión en el movimiento por la justicia económica y social.» Tim Robbins, actor y director de cine « Apasionado, maravillosamente polémico y terrible como el infierno.» John Le Carré « Naomi Klein ha escrito un libro brillante, terrible y valiente.
Es la historia secreta de lo que conocemos como “libre mercado” y debería ser la lectura obligatoria.» Arundhati Roy, autora de El dios de las pequeñas cosas. « Naomi Klein es Antífona antes que Rey, el antídoto contra el asesinato como una política económica. Nos reta a no participar en el club suicida que permite el canibalismo corporativo. Un triunfo espectacular.» John Cusack, autor y director de cine. "Un libro ambicioso donde Klein explora los pasados 50 años de historia económica y la eclosión del fundamentalista libre mercado en todo el mundo." The New York Times "Hay pocos libros que nos ayuden a entender el presente. La doctrina del shock es uno de ellos."John Gray, The Guardian "Libro singular, una obra épica y apasionante con un mensaje que debe ser escuchado. Naomi Klein nos ofrece un nuevo paradigma para comprender la política. Su libro es honesto, urgente y necesario." The Washington Post
Entre los escombros del huracán María, los puertorriqueños y los «Puertopians» multimillonarios están atrapados en una batalla campal para decidir cómo reconstruir la isla. En esta vital y asombrosa investigación, Naomi Klein revela cómo las fuerzas de las políticas del shock y del capitalismo del desastre buscan minar la visión radical y resiliente de una recuperación justa.
¿Recuerdan cuando se suponía que el amor iba a triunfar sobre el odio? ¿O que hubo un momento en que las petroleras y los banqueros parecían estar amilanados y a la defensiva? ¿Qué demonios pasó? ¿Y qué podemos hacer al respecto? Naomi Klein nos explica cómo hemos llegado a este punto y cómo podemos cambiar las cosas para mejor.
Decir no no basta revela, entre otras cosas, que la desorientación que sentimos nos la han provocado deliberadamente. Que por todo el mundo, para generar una crisis tras otra, se están utilizando tácticas de shock diseñadas para forzar políticas que van a arruinar a la gente, el medio ambiente, la economía y nuestra seguridad. Que el extremismo no es un hecho aberrante, sino un cóctel tóxico de nuestros tiempos.
Naomi Klein nos enseña cómo podemos romper el hechizo y conseguir el mundo que necesitamos. No dejemos que se salgan con la suya.
Esto lo cambia todo es una brillante explicación de las razones por las que la crisis climática nos desafía a abandonar definitivamente la ideología de «libre mercado», a reestructurar la economía global y a rehacer nuestros sistemas políticos.
En este libro, Naomi Klein sostiene que el cambio climático es una alerta que nos obliga a replantearnos nuestro actual modelo económico, ya fracasado en muchos aspectos, y defiende que la reducción masiva de emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero es la única oportunidad de acortar las enormes desigualdades económicas, replantear nuestras democracias fracturadas y reconstruir las economías locales.
Con el estilo directo al que nos tiene acostumbrados, la autora desafía nuestras conciencias con esta obra provocativa que pone el cambio climático en el centro de la política.
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