There are raves, there are gushing raves, and then there’s the blown water main that is D.R. Tucker’s Washington Monthly online review of Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate. Canadian lefty writer Klein, who’s probably best known for her 2007 book The Shock Doctrine, argues in her new volume that radical economic changes are necessary to combat global warming.
Tucker claims that This Changes Everything is “one of the greatest nonfiction works of all-time” and enthuses, “Disregard that 2008 Obama speech—the publication of this book will truly mark the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow, and the planet began to heal.”
From Tucker’s Sunday post (emphasis added):
This book is so threatening to the right-wing mindset that we will soon see Tea Party members burning it in YouTube videos. Hardcore conservatives will condemn the book with language they don’t even use to describe the Qu’ran. It will be banned from bookstores, forced from public libraries, preached against from pulpits.
They will lash out because Klein has, with this book, throughly and completely debunked everything promoted under the banner of conservatism today—and she has done so with a work that’s more powerful than a stack of C4.
This Changes Everything deserves to be viewed not as one of the greatest nonfiction works of the 2010s, but as one of the greatest nonfiction works of all-time. Disregard that 2008 Obama speech—the publication of this book will truly mark the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow, and the planet began to heal…
As Klein observes, the twin demons of globalization and market fundamentalism began to possess the developed world in the late-1980s, and have yet to be exorcised. Only a powerful, determined, diverse, international, grassroots progressive movement can drive those demons out…
…Klein notes that even the political center-left trembles at the implications of the climate crisis…
This Changes Everything…is not just a book, not just a moment, not just a movement. It is a weapon of justice. It is a path of survival. This Changes Everything is the Truth, and the Answer.
