On Fire

Naomi Klein is an award-winning writer, columnist, and best-selling author of The Shock Doctrine, No Logo, This Changes Everything, and No Is Not Enough. Klein is the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University. She is a Senior Correspondent for The Intercept, a Rolling Stone reporter, and a contributor to both The Nation and The Guardian. She is a cofounder of The Leap, a climate justice initiative.

For more than two decades, Naomi Klein has been the leading chronicler of the economic war waged on both people and the earth, as well as an unashamed supporter of a broad environmental agenda centered on justice. She produces booming, important pieces for a wide public in straightforward, exquisite dispatches from the frontlines of contemporary natural disaster: clairvoyant advises and terrifying warnings of what future awaits us if we do not act, as well as hopeful views of a far better future. On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green Fresh Deal brings together for the first time more than a decade of her fervent writing, together with new material on the staggeringly high stakes of our current political and economic choices.

Klein is at her most prophetic and philosophical in these long-form articles, addressing the climate issue not only as a deep political challenge but also as a spiritual and imaginative one. This is a rousing call to action for a planet on the verge, delving into topics ranging from the clash between ecological time and our culture of "perpetual now," to the soaring history of humans changing and evolving rapidly in the face of grave threats, to rising white supremacy and fortressed borders as a form of "climate barbarism."

Klein makes the case that we will rise to the existential challenge of climate change only if we are willing to transform the systems that produced this crisis, with reports ranging from the ghostly Great Barrier Reef to the annual smoke-choked skies of the Pacific Northwest, to post-hurricane Puerto Rico, to a Vatican attempting an unprecedented "ecological conversion."

On Fire depicts the blazing urgency of the climate issue, as well as the flaming intensity of a rising political movement seeking a catalytic Green New Deal, in an expansive, far-reaching inquiry that views the fight for a greener future as indistinguishable from the fight for our lives.

Author: Naomi Klein

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Burning-Case-Green-Deal/dp/1982129913

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