readwithdyl's review against another edition
5.0
This is such an important book. Naomi Klein continues to be a leading visionary in the climate justice movement, whose eloquently urgent writing lays out the crises we face and what we can do about them. Compelling, terrifying, inspiring, and even a bit optimistic - everyone should read this book and then join the fight for a Green New Deal.
akingston5's review against another edition
“We don’t have the right to demand perfection from each other. But we do have the right to expect progress.”
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I know the Green New Deal and climate collapse can be loaded conversations, but knowing little about what a GND would do, I picked this up to learn more. Honestly, the environment is one of my gravest concerns as a young person in the US and the lack of policies being made toward preserving, caring for, and stewarding the earth’s resources that dignify both the planet and living creatures. (Oklahoma passed a law banning bans on plastic bags. I mean, what.) We hear from scientists all the time that we have 10 years now to turn things around, and we will continue to see a rise in climate migrants, a group not currently recognized by the UN. This text paints a vision of what could be possible— sure there will be mistakes along the way— but what else do we do for the earth and her people but try?
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I know the Green New Deal and climate collapse can be loaded conversations, but knowing little about what a GND would do, I picked this up to learn more. Honestly, the environment is one of my gravest concerns as a young person in the US and the lack of policies being made toward preserving, caring for, and stewarding the earth’s resources that dignify both the planet and living creatures. (Oklahoma passed a law banning bans on plastic bags. I mean, what.) We hear from scientists all the time that we have 10 years now to turn things around, and we will continue to see a rise in climate migrants, a group not currently recognized by the UN. This text paints a vision of what could be possible— sure there will be mistakes along the way— but what else do we do for the earth and her people but try?
candelibri's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
5.0
If Naomi writes it, I’m gonna read it. She’s all-encompassing, incisive, she breaks it down into easily digestible ideas and strategies and it’s not doomsday writing. Excellent.
stefhyena's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
A very thoughtful book that looks at the connections between various social issues and climate. A book that does all it can to be constructive without being naive. I wish more people would read this and we could start collectively acting on it. In the meantime i will support the small minority who already do.
worldlibraries's review against another edition
5.0
Thank God for book clubs! They get you to read books you may not discover on your own. Case in point: this outstanding five-star read by Canadian global thought leader, Naomi Klein. It's called On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal. I read this for the Climate Solutions Book Club with members from all over the world, an online book club founded and administered by Paul E. Dawson out of Glasgow, Scotland. I can not recommend this book to you enough as it will concentrate your thinking about our greatest existential threat: the climate emergency.
I knew of Naomi Klein, and had even read part of her book on neoliberalism, The Shock Doctrine, but I wasn't completely aware of what a visionary she is and how huge her following is. She has almost 700,000 followers on Twitter, which is not your usual environmental policy author following. I'll admit to feeling jealous that she identifies as Canadian as I read the book (despite her legacy American passport -- her parents moved to Canada to avoid the draft during Vietnam and she identifies as a Canadian). I was so sad we can't claim her as ours!
This is a hope-filled book. The blueprint is all there to transition to our post-fossil fuel economy of degrowth that stays within our planetary boundaries and stops colonizing the future by using up their resources. The possibilities are exciting and if you want to have the vision of what is possible in your head, you need to read this book and then organize for it. This Green New Deal is such a level of audacious that every single person possible will be necessary to fight for it. I'll share more during the week.
The answers to our runaway emissions growth are available right here. The question is: will citizens step up to demand change or continue to passively watch our planet get destroyed? Time is running out. Read her book! Get your posse to read it with you! It's outstanding!
I knew of Naomi Klein, and had even read part of her book on neoliberalism, The Shock Doctrine, but I wasn't completely aware of what a visionary she is and how huge her following is. She has almost 700,000 followers on Twitter, which is not your usual environmental policy author following. I'll admit to feeling jealous that she identifies as Canadian as I read the book (despite her legacy American passport -- her parents moved to Canada to avoid the draft during Vietnam and she identifies as a Canadian). I was so sad we can't claim her as ours!
This is a hope-filled book. The blueprint is all there to transition to our post-fossil fuel economy of degrowth that stays within our planetary boundaries and stops colonizing the future by using up their resources. The possibilities are exciting and if you want to have the vision of what is possible in your head, you need to read this book and then organize for it. This Green New Deal is such a level of audacious that every single person possible will be necessary to fight for it. I'll share more during the week.
The answers to our runaway emissions growth are available right here. The question is: will citizens step up to demand change or continue to passively watch our planet get destroyed? Time is running out. Read her book! Get your posse to read it with you! It's outstanding!
mora55's review against another edition
klein makes a compelling case for why a green new deal is a good idea, and i liked tracing the development of her thoughts over time through her older essays and speeches. but as someone who has a degree in this it's just the same things i hear all the time. and they are all good things, it's not that i disagree, but it does feel like nothing is happening to achieve them (because i hear them all the time - they're a lot of talk), and definitely not fast enough, so it was a little disheartening even though it's supposed to be rousing/encouraging lmao. i wish we could achieve the world naomi klein wants us to. maybe i sound a little defeatist and that's exactly what she said is hindering the cause, and i do agree to some extent, but i'm just. tired of the same problems that people are trying so hard to address and yet never get addressed on a high enough level to make a big enough difference
zakisreadingbooks's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
3.25
Good, but not as good as her other work.