Klein (2014) has a very personal touch throughout the book, with her ending her climate denial phase upon realising her child was going to grow up in a world bereft of nature and depleted of natural beauty. It is regular people like her that are taking the stand that she talks of in Blockadia. The regular people who are tired of fancy United Nations jargon and Green groups who are in bed with the proverbial enemy. This is the segment that changed my outlook on how to contribute to the fight. In her break down of the protests in Nigeria, she moulds a budding revolutionary in the reader and even though she details how extractors are “pushing into more territory, and relying on more risky methods” her explaining how the Blockadia movement is rising in opposition to it is the glimmer of hope the reader needs to join the war against climate change. (Klein, 2014, p. 310) This personal tone is reinforced when she takes us through her personal battles with fertility and her IVF treatment not going well along with her …show more content…
This is not the only example she uses as she also refers to the Keystone XL pipeline which don’t just “unite opposition to this pipeline” but increases the fight against extreme extraction. (Klein, 2014, p. 345) In the later parts of the book Klein (2014) enlists the expertise of famous eco-feminist Carolyn Merchant when she is explaining how we must “unlearn” our ideas of us conquering nature, and that we must enter a relationship with nature (Klein, 2014, p. 395) This is an under-rated strong point of Klein’s work (2014) at no point does she ever assume to be an expert, she frequently refers to experts who know better to verify her assertions thus making the book even more valuable to readers as there is an assurance that she took precaution to deliver information as accurately as