BOOKS: This Changes Everything, by Naomi Klein | Emanuele Corso

Review of This Changes Everything, by Naomi Klein

Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust

April 26, 2015

The One Book

If you are planning to read a book this year I strongly suggest Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything.

Climate change and global warming are real, tangible, and undeniable, the evidence is concrete, and it is planet-wide. The only serious question remaining is whether or not something can be done to slow or otherwise mitigate it in the face of powerful political opposition.

This book reminds me of Ralph Nader’s Unsafe At Any Speed. The sounding of an alarm reflexively resisted by vested interests but of vital interest and value to everyone else.

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Florida Gov. Rick Scott made himself into a world-class laughing stock forbidding Florida state employees to use the terms climate change or global warming. Scott is now followed by Louisianna Gov. Bobby Jindal and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, two leading lights of contemporary right-wing political leadership.

One has to wonder and be concerned when politicians dissemble and deny, and ask who is paying them to perform. Denial seems to be as contagious as it is profitable. When the phrase “money is the root of all evil” was coined they hadn’t yet heard of PACs, ALEC, or the Koch boys numerous political organizations to funnel money into politics.

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