| ON FIRE The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal Naomi Klein New York: Simon & Schuster, September 2019 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-1-9821-2991-0 | ||||
| ISBN-10 1-9821-2991-3 | 309pp. | HC | $27.00 | |
| Page 32: | "For my entire adult life, I have been involved in movements confronting the myriad ways that our current economic systems grinds up people's lives and landscapes in the ruthless pursuit of profit." |
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| Page 45: | "Much of this is due to the hard calculus warming." |
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| Page 47: | "It is far more likely that many who currently claim to deny climate change will simply switch to the sinister worldview espoused by the Christchurch killer, a recognition that we are indeed facing a convulsive future and that is all the more reason for wealthy, majority-white countries to fortress their borders..." |
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| Page 50: | "Beneath the theater of some governments denying climate change and others claiming to be doing something about it while they fortress their borders from its effects..." |
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| Page 58: | "BP has spent weeks failing to plug the hole in the earth that it made." |
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| Page 85: | "(For example, growing food in greenhouses in cold parts of the United States is often more energy-intensive than growing it in the South and shipping it by light rail." |
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| Page 97: | "We will fortress our borders and intervene in foreign conflicts over resources..." |
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| Page 196: | "The HMS Endeavor didn't start life as a navy or scientific vessel, tasked with unlocking astrological and biological mysteries..." |
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| Page 245: | "Just in case we missed the point of who and what is to blame for the fact that we are now 'losing earth,' Rich's answer is..." |
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| Page 291: | "These forces have been quietly building local models and road testing policies for how to..." |
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