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“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.
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“[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
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“Klein is a brave and passionate writer who always deserves to be
heard, and this is a powerful and urgent book.”
— Observer (UK)
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“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
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“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
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“Klein…is a gifted writer and there
is little doubt about the problem she identifies.”
— Financial Times (London)
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“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)
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“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)
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“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)
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“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