Book Review: This Changes Everything, by Naomi Klein, published: Sept. 2014

Summarize the book. What is being discussed?
Rob Nixon of the New York Times called Naomi Klein’s “This Changes Everything:
Capitalism vs. the Climate” “a book of such ambition and consequence that it is almost unreviewable.[1]” Naomi Klein researches the impact of Climate change and its relationship with free market capitalism. She discusses capitalism as failed economic system. She goes into great depth on the subject of resource extraction, pollution and the events of surrounding the affected communities in these regions across the world. However, rather than concluding that things are hopeless Naomi Klein argues that: We can build something better and reclaim our economic system. She argues that the market cannot save us. We have the tools/technology to get off of fossil fuels, but it requires leaving free market capitalism behind. We need to rebuild local economies, reign in corporate power and reclaim democracy. She argues that we aren’t all the all powerful saviours of the planet, but that as visitors on the earth we have to save ourselves from an earth that is rocking, burning and driving humanity into extinction because of our actions.

Describe the three most important arguments or claims made in the book. The first argument Naomi Klein makes is that world leaders and climate scientists agree if we are going to avoid truly catastrophic consequences of climate change; we need to restrict the earth's warming to 2 deg celcius. Beyond that, the earth's systems start to unravel. The problem is simple; if you look at companies proven oil and gas reserves it is up to 5 times the earth's entire carbon budget. If we leave it in the ground, we have a chance. If we dig it all up, we’re cooked.
The second argument that Naomi Klein makes is that we can’t respond to a collective