![]() ![]() Klein also argues that the struggle against climate change is intimately linked to struggles for economic and social justice. What’s required, in effect, is a new worldview. In other words, we must think outside of the dominant economic and ideological model of free-market capitalism, outside of our carbon-intensive lifestyles, and also outside of our deeply-engrained cultural assumptions that we can control and exploit nature as an endless resource. To cut carbon emission levels by a sufficient amount, we must be prepared to change everything. This is because the sweeping changes required to avoid a climate catastrophe run against the grain of our existing profit-based economic model and are not in the financial interests of a wealthy and powerful elite who dominate politics and shape mainstream political discourse. We already have the technology and ideas required to start significantly reducing carbon emissions and shifting our economies to renewable-energy based models, but what’s lacking is the political will. Klein argues that the answer is political. She asks the question: considering the stakes are so high, why have we done so little? Klein bases her argument on the scientific consensus that at projected rates of carbon emission we are heading towards an environmental catastrophe that would irreparably damage the natural world, destroy lives, and destabilise human society. ![]()
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