Much has been written about Germany’s renewable energy transition – It is currently undergoing a ‘transition to green’ – with 25% of its energy coming from renewables. This is up from only 6% in 2000. For starters, in the wealthier countries we will be able to protect our cities from the effects of sea level rise with expensive flood barriers, and then there’s the fact that climate change will affect poor countries in the South more than rich countries in the North. Renewables "demand that we adapt ourselves to the rhythms of natural systems, as opposed to bending those systems to our will with brute force engineering." (394)

Klein notes that there is startling parallel between the emergence of international treaties on climate change and the neoliberal agenda free-trade agenda advanced by the World Trade Organisation.Well written, compelling and persuasive, thought-provoking, horrifyingly depressing, but, nonetheless, important and well worth reading.

Klein memulainya dengan menceritakan tentang hari lahir dari climate movement di tahun 1988. Seorang ilmuwan NASA membuat suatu statement bahwa bumi yang semakin memanas (padahal belum sepanas sekarang), adalah hasil dari aktivitas manusia. Pernyataan itu, kemudian diikuti oleh gerakan ilmuwan lain, dan perbincangan semakin memanas. Sayang sekali, satu tahun setelah itu meredup perbincangan itu, diikuti dengan aksi politik dunia yang mengambil alih perhatian. the movements for the abolition of slavery and for Third World independence from colonial powers. Both of these transformative movements forced ruling elites to relinquish practices that were still extraordinarily profitable, much as fossil fuel extraction is today." (455)

You’ve been communicating the climate emergency for over a decade. How have your strategies changed over the years?

It’s nearly impossible to convince people to abandon their core worldview." (Source: Reddit comments by Naomi Klein, 11/20/2014/) Indeed, if the movement has a guiding theory, it is that it is high time to close, rather than expand, the fossil fuel frontier." (304) aYDXCP |beng |erda |cYDXCP |dBTCTA |dBDX |dOCLCQ |dIAD |dOCLCO |dJHE |dKL3 |dI3U |dCDX |dOCLCQ |dIAK |dCLZ I always tell people that the most important thing they can do is join groups of other people taking action. And that action depends on where they can have the most influence. If they’re university students, that may mean divestment. If they live somewhere in the path of a pipeline, it may mean stopping that pipeline. If they’re a brilliant economist, it may mean working with colleagues on policy approaches that movements can champion. Space is opening up for a growing influence of Indigenous thought on new generations of activists … [so that] progressive movements are being exposed to worldviews based on relationships of reciprocity and interconnection with the natural world that are the antithesis of extractivism." (182)marked the date of the establishment of the World Trade Organisation, which formally put in place all of the above rules which effectively prevent any country doing anything about climate-change. Firstly, the WTO encourages more international trade which has meant a huge increase in fossil fuel burning container ships and lorries. Reduced carbon emissions would require less trade or more local trade.