| THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING Capitalism Vs. the Climate Naomi Klein New York: Simon & Schuster, August 2015 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-1-4516-9739-1 | ||||
| ISBN-10 1-4516-9739-2 | 564pp. | SC | $16.99 | |
| Page 25: | "...ideological roadblocks that have so far prevented any of these long understood solutions from taking hold on anything like the scale required." |
| Missing hyphen: S/B "long-understood". |
| Pages 24-25: | "Because, underneath all of this is the real truth we have been avoiding..." |
| Missing comma: S/B "underneath all of this, is the real truth". |
| Page 40: | "More fundamentally than this, though, is their deep fear that if the free market system really has set in motion physical and chemical processes that, if allowed to continue unchecked, threaten large parts of humanity at an existential level, then their entire crusade to morally redeem capitalism has been for naught." |
| Wrong part of speech: S/B "fundamental". |
| Page 65: | "Washington, meanwhile, has launched a World Trade Organization attack on India's ambitious Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, a large, multiphase solar program—once again, for containing provisions, designed to encourage local industry, considered to be protectionist." |
| Extra commas: S/B "once again for containing provisions designed to encourage local industry". |
| Page 86: | "(For example, growing food in greenhouses in cold parts of the United States is often more energy intensive than growing it in warmer regions and shipping it by light rail." |
| Terminology: S/B "rail". Light rail is generally understood to mean a local people-mover system without grade crossings; that is, one which runs at ground level throughout. |
| Page 115: | "In Britain and North America during World War II, for instance, every strata of society was required to make do with less, even the very rich." |
| Number error: S/B "stratum". |
| Page 142: | "It is true that the market is great at generating technological innovation and, left to its own devices, R&D departments will continue to come up with impressive new ways to make solar modules and electrical appliances more efficient." |
| Number error: S/B "their". |
| Page 169: | "Though developed under capitalism, governments across the ideological spectrum now embrace as a road to development..." |
| Dangling participle: S/B "this resource-depleting model is now embraced by governments across the ideological spectrum". |
| Page 215: | "Conventional oil and gas is much more than enough." |
| Number error: S/B "are". (Although this is a quote from a Stanford engineering professor, so it might be inviolate.) |
| Page 216: | "One of the centers key funders is the Heinz Endowments, which as it turns out, was no disinterested party." |
| Missing comma: S/B "Endowments, which, as it turns out". |
| Page 228: | "In other words, thinking they were playing a savvy inside game, Big Green was outmaneuvered on a grand scale." |
| Number error: S/B "it". (Conversely, the sentence could be "In other words, thinking they were playing a savvy inside game, the Big Green organizations were outmaneuvered on a grand scale.") |
| Page 296: | "People are hungry for climate action that does more than asks you to send emails to your climate-denying congressperson..." |
| Number error: S/B "ask". (Although this is another quote.) |
| Page 303: | "Social media in particular has allowed geographically isolated communities to..." |
| Number error: S/B "have". |
| Page 411: | "...which have stalled again and again over the central question of whether climate action will reflect the history of who created the crisis." |
| Missing word: S/B "those who". |
| Page 415: | "The rich world, for the most part, ignores these calls, dismissing it all as ancient history..." |
| Number error: S/B "dismissing them all". |
| Page 422: | "...there is still a wall that we can hit, a place beyond which we cannot push." |
| Parallelism: S/B "a place we cannot push beyond". (Also, this is the sort of language up with which I will not put.) |
| Page 452: | "In these existing and nascent movements we now have a clear glimpses of the kind of dedication and imagination demanded..." |
| Number error: S/B "a clear glimpse" (or "clear glimpses," which works better.) |
| Page 463: | "...Wendell Phillips insisted on the right to denounce those who in the harshest terms defended slavery." |
| Word order: S/B "in the harshest terms those who defended slavery". |
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