It threatens to turn the mythical human conquest of nature on its head, endangering present-day civilization and throwing doubt on the long-term survival of Homo sapiens. All of which is clearly meant to convey in no uncertain terms that climate change literally changes everything for today’s society. It is only when we look at the spine of the book, turn it over, or open it to the title page that we see it is written by North America’s leading left climate intellectual-activist and that the subtitle is Capitalism vs. Both the author’s name and the subtitle are absent. It consists of the title alone in big block letters, with the emphasis on Changes. The front cover of Naomi Klein’s new book, This Changes Everything, is designed to look like a protest sign.
(Republished, with permission, from Monthly Review, February 2015) The liberal attack on Naomi Klein and This Changes Everything Brett Clark is associate professor of sociology at the University of Utah and co-author of The Tragedy of the Commodity (Rutgers University Press, forthcoming). John Bellamy Foster is editor of the independent socialist magazine Monthly Review (subscription highly recommended!) and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon.
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