Naomi Klein
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Klein argues that climate change isn't just another issue to be neatly filed between taxes and health care. It's an alarm that calls us to fix an economic system that is already failing us in many ways. Klein ... builds the case for how massively reducing our greenhouse emissions is our best chance to simultaneously reduce gaping inequalities, re-imagine our broken democracies, and rebuild our gutted local economies"--
Author
Language
English
Description
Remember when it all seemed to be getting better? Before Trump happened? What went wrong, and what can we do about it? Naomi Klein -- scourge of brand bullies, disaster capitalists and climate liars -- shows us how we got to this surreal and dangerous place, how to stop it getting worse and how, if we keep our heads, we can seize the opportunity to make it better. She reveals how Trump is not a freakish aberration, but an extension of the most powerful...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
558 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the concept of "disaster capitalism" offers an expose? of how the global "free market" has exploited crises, violence, and shock over the past three decades to promote radical privatization that benefits large corporations and powerful interest groups.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged edition.
Physical Desc
17 sound discs (1260 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Despite mounting scientific evidence, climate change denial is surging in many wealthy countries, and fossil-fuel extraction has gathered pace. Naomi Klein exposes the work of ideologues who know the difficulties this poses to the free market, and challenges the failing strategies of environmental groups.
"Top Ten Pick"--Publishers Weekly
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"An empowering, engaging young readers guide to understanding and battling climate change from the expert and bestselling author of This Changes Everything and On Fire, Naomi Klein. Warmer temperatures. Fires in the Amazon. Superstorms. These are just some of the effects of climate change that we are already experiencing. The good news is that we can all do something about it. A movement is already underway to combat not only the environmental effects...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired another self--a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you'd devoted your life to fighting against? Not long ago, the celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein had just such an experience--she was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 309 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"For more than twenty years, Naomi Klein has been the foremost chronicler of the economic war waged on both people and planet-and an unapologetic champion of a sweeping environmental agenda with justice at its center. In lucid, elegant dispatches from the frontlines of contemporary natural disaster, she pens surging, indispensable essays for a wide public: prescient advisories and dire warnings of what future awaits us if we refuse to act, as well...
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (145 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Corporation charts the spectacular rise of the corporation as a dramatic, pervasive presence in our everyday lives. With a deft mix of humor, visual panache and seriousness, this documentary is a timely, entertaining critique of global conglomerates.