Sauces, Savoury & Sweet

by Michel Roux
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  • Added: 2025-10-21
  • Updated: 2025-10-21
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foyles.co.uk · Unknown · 2025-10-22
insightful 4.00

This Changes Everything is a hard-hitting book on climate change issues, full of real-world stories and examples. The book focuses on how our current economic system impedes progress on climate change and argues for radical changes to avoid disaster.

This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein is a hard-hitting book on climate change issues, full of real-world stories and examples. The book, written in 2014, remains relevant today as it focuses on how our current economic system and those who cling to it impede progress on climate change. Klein argues that to avoid disaster, we need to make radical changes. The book is chock full of real-world stories and examples, which help grasp the issues and marvel at the denial humans are capable of. However, the narrative thread can be lost at times, making it a bit challenging to follow the overall theme. Despite this, the book is very worth the read and provides a lot of valuable insights.

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    In other words, changing the earth’s climate in ways that will be chaotic and disastrous is easier to accept than the prospect of changing the fundamental, growth-based, profit-seeking logic of capitalism.

    This is chock full of real-world stories and examples, and I found that to be both good and bad.

    I’m really glad I read this, and I’m and looking forward to trying Naomi Klein’s other books as well.

ilovemygrub.com · Unknown · 2025-10-22
insightful 4.50

Naomi Klein's 'This Changes Everything' challenges the conflict between capitalism and climate change, offering a critique of current economic models and proposing social and environmental justice as solutions. The book is praised for its engaging presentation of complex issues and its call for radical social change.

Naomi Klein's 'This Changes Everything' presents a bold critique of the conflict between capitalism and climate change. The book argues that our current economic model, driven by deregulated capitalism, is fundamentally at odds with the necessary actions to combat climate change. Klein's central message is one of social and environmental justice, suggesting that the solution to global warming lies not in fixing the world but in fixing ourselves. The book is commended for its engaging and accessible presentation of complex issues, including the critique of 'disaster capitalism' and the call for radical social change. Klein's ideas are well-supported by examples and innovative descriptions of old problems, making the book a compelling read for those interested in climate justice and social mobilization.

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    Klein’s argument is that, while the majority of people think climate change is a threat, “we have not done the things that are necessary to lower emissions because those things fundamentally conflict with deregulated capitalism” which is the “reigning ideology” of our time (p.18).

    At the heart of the book Klein is supplying society with a challenge: are we on the right path, are we doing the right things for ourselves and for the future, and is this the best we can be?

    The book also joins the dots between climate change, poverty, and development. Social and environmental justice arguments feature strongly in the second half of the book, and even the controversial issues of wealth transfers and redistributive climate finance mechanisms are outlined in chapter three.

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