This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate Audiobook

Quotes

• “Naomi Klein is a genius. She has done for politics what Jared Diamond did for the study of human history. She skillfully blends politics, economics, and history and distills out simple and powerful truths with universal applicability.”

  — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

• “[A]robust new polemic…Drawing on an impressive volume of research, Ms. Klein savages the idea that we will be saved by new technologies or by an incremental shift away from fossil fuels: Both approaches, she argues, are forms of denial…Klein is aware of the intractability of the problems she describes, but she manages optimism nonetheless.”

  — New York Times

• “Klein is a brave and passionate writer who always deserves to be heard, and this is a powerful and urgent book.”

  — Observer (UK)

• “If global warming is a worldwide wake-up call, we’re all pretty heavy sleepers…We haven’t made significant progress, Klein argues, because we’ve been expecting solutions from the very same institutions that created the problem in the first place…Klein’s sharp analysis makes a compelling case that a mass awakening is part of the answer.”

  — Chicago Tribune

• “Naomi Klein’s latest book may be the manifesto that the climate movement—and the planet—needs right now…For those with whom her message does resonate—and they are likely to be legion—her book could help catalyze the kind of mass movement she argues the world needs now.”

  — San Francisco Chronicle

• “Klein…is a gifted writer and there is little doubt about the problem she identifies.”

  — Financial Times (London)

• “The book has an uplifting message: that humans have changed before and can change again. It poses a gutsy challenge to those who are vaguely hoping that the whole issue will go away or that some new technology will save us.”

  — Sunday Times (UK)

• “An intellectual hero of many in the alter-globalization protests as well as the Occupy movement…Klein is ready for battle and is not afraid to own her politics.”

  — Los Angeles Review of Books)

• “Journalist Klein is a resolute investigator into the dark side of unchecked capitalism…This comprehensive, sure-to-be controversial inquiry, one of the most thorough, eloquent, and enlightening books yet on this urgent and overwhelming subject—alongside works by Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Diane Ackerman—provides the evidence and the reasoning we need to help us shift to a ‘worldview based on regeneration and renewal rather than domination and depletion.’”

  — Booklist (starred review)

• “Narrator Ellen Archer maintains excellent clarity as she delivers Klein’s comprehensive analysis linking climate change to a broader progressive agenda…Archer’s narration is well paced throughout Klein’s careful recitations of facts. She also shows touches of earnest emotion when the audiobook offers Klein’s personal reactions to the devastation wrought by Alberta tar-sand development and other environmental horrors. While much of the material may not be new to listeners who follow climate change developments closely, Klein offers a fresh, personal, even hopeful, analysis of this most pressing global crisis.”

  — AudioFile