Excess CO2 from fossil fuel burning is not just warming the climate - it's also drastically changing ocean chemistry. When CO2 dissolves in seawater, it forms carbonic acid, lowering the pH. The oceans are now 30% more acidic than in pre-industrial times, and on track to be 150% more acidic by 2100. This acidification makes it harder for calcifying organisms like corals, oysters, and pteropods to build their skeletons and shells. It can even cause shells to dissolve.
Studies at natural CO2 seeps, which act as "windows into the future," show the potentially catastrophic impacts. Reefs near seeps are dominated by weedy algae, with corals and other calcifiers almost entirely absent. Ocean acidification rivals global warming as a threat to marine life, and has been a key driver of several past mass extinctions.
Section: 1, Chapter: 6
The fight to save species has yielded some remarkable success stories. But they are exceptions in a larger tide of loss. The overall trend remains grim, with extinction rates 100 to 1,000 times background levels. Habitat loss, climate change, pollution, and other human pressures continue to accelerate, outpacing our best efforts to protect biodiversity.
We need transformative changes in how we use land, water, and other resources. This requires:
- Rapidly scaling up protected areas and connecting them through habitat corridors
- Enacting much stronger legal protections for threatened species and ecosystems
- Mainstreaming biodiversity considerations into agriculture, forestry, fisheries, energy, and other sectors
- Curbing greenhouse gas emissions to reduce the threat of climate change
- Shifting social norms and values to prioritize living in balance with nature
Section: 1, Chapter: 13
The oceans have absorbed about a third of the CO2 humans have emitted, causing rapid acidification. This process impairs the ability of marine organisms, especially corals, to build their calcium carbonate skeletons and shells. At natural CO2 seeps off the Italian island of Castello Aragonese, the impact is clear. Reefs near the seeps are graveyards, with corals and other calcifiers replaced by seaweed.
As the oceans continue to acidify, entire reef ecosystems could collapse worldwide. Coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef has already declined by 50% in recent decades. Ocean acidification, combined with warming water temperatures, is pushing corals and countless other species toward a bleak future.
Section: 1, Chapter: 7
In the blink of a geological eye, humans have become the dominant force shaping the planet. Through habitat alteration, overhunting, species introductions, and climate change, we are transforming environments at unprecedented rates. This outsized impact has led some scientists to propose a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene -
- Widespread land transformation for agriculture and settlements
- Damming and diversion of most major rivers
- Doubling of natural nitrogen and phosphorus cycles through fertilizer use
- Human use of over half of readily available freshwater
- Rising greenhouse gas levels driving global climate change
These signatures will be detectable in the geological record for eons to come, making the Anthropocene a turning point in Earth's history.
Section: 1, Chapter: 5
The Panamanian golden frog, once prevalent in streams near El Valle, has been nearly eradicated by a deadly fungal disease called chytridiomycosis. This disease, caused by the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), has spread across Panama, decimating frog populations.
Scientists quickly gathered the remaining golden frogs to create a captive breeding program, housing them initially in a "frog hotel" and later at the El Valle Amphibian Conservation Center. Despite these efforts, the species is now extinct in the wild, underscoring the severity of the global amphibian extinction crisis.
Section: 1, Chapter: 1
In the Amazon, intricate ecological relationships have evolved over millennia, with each species adapted to a specific temperature niche. But as the climate warms, these niches are shifting upslope. On the forested slopes of Peru's Manú National Park, research by ecologist Miles Silman reveals that trees are migrating to higher elevations at surprising speeds.
But there's a catch - not all species are moving at the same pace. Certain trees like Schefflera are racing upward, while others like Alzatea are staying put. This variable response means that entire forest communities are unlikely to successfully migrate intact. Instead, ancient ecological relationships are being torn apart, leaving networks of interdependent species vulnerable to collapse.
Section: 1, Chapter: 8
In the Amazon, a single army ant species, Eciton burchellii, supports an entire "mini-ecosystem" of camp followers. Over 300 species depend on these nomadic ants, including antbirds, butterflies, beetles, mites, and more. Each species has evolved to exploit the ants in a different way, from eating their scraps to hitching rides on their backs.
But this intricate web of relationships is fragile. In forest fragments, the specialized antbirds disappear, even when the army ants themselves persist. It seems the birds need a critical density of ant swarms to survive. The army ant system shows how losing even obscure species can unravel whole communities, given the complex interdependencies that underpin tropical diversity.
Section: 1, Chapter: 9
The current rate of species extinction is estimated to be 100 to 1000 times higher than the background extinction rate, which is about 0.1 extinctions per million species per year. Amphibians have been hit especially hard, with an extinction rate as much as 45,000 times the background rate. This means we are likely in the midst of the sixth mass extinction in Earth's history, this time primarily caused by human activities. Species are disappearing so fast that biologists feel they are "running through a museum and knowing that the collection's on fire."
Section: 1, Chapter: 1
For centuries, the natural world was defined by the geographic isolation of continents and islands. Distinctive plants and animals evolved in seclusion, cut off from their relatives by oceans and mountain ranges. Darwin saw this as a key driver of speciation.
But human transportation has shattered these barriers. Organisms that could never have spread beyond their native ranges are crossing the planet as stowaways in ship ballast, air cargo, and luggage. The rate of species invasions is skyrocketing, with a new introduced species establishing somewhere in the world every 9 days. These invaders are homogenizing ecosystems, driving natives extinct, and fundamentally rewiring food webs. The result is a New Pangaea, a world where ancient evolutionary divisions no longer apply.
Section: 1, Chapter: 10
Darwin recognized some species went extinct suddenly, like the great auk and ammonites. But wedded to Lyell's gradualism, he argued the apparent abruptness merely reflected gaps in the fossil record. Extinctions actually occurred slowly, through competition in the "struggle for existence."
However, as evidence of human-caused extinctions accumulated, a paradox emerged. How could humans overturn the "natural" pace of extinction? It implied either 1) people were unbound by nature's laws, having a "special status," or 2) catastrophic extinctions did occur, meaning Cuvier was right. Darwin sidestepped this problematic conclusion, even as he chronicled human-caused extinctions like the Charles Island tortoise.
Section: 1, Chapter: 3
"Such is the power of the human enterprise. In a very short time, we have managed to change the composition of the atmosphere and the chemistry of the oceans, and to ravage the biosphere. Having freed ourselves from the constraints of evolution, humans nevertheless remain dependent on the earth's biological and geochemical systems. By disrupting these systems - cutting down tropical rainforests, altering the composition of the atmosphere, acidifying the oceans - we're putting our own survival in danger. ... Right now, in the amazing moment that to us counts as the present, we are deciding, without quite meaning to, which evolutionary pathways will remain open and which will forever be closed. No other creature has ever managed this, and it will, unfortunately, be our most enduring legacy."
Section: 1, Chapter: 13
"Very, very occasionally in the distant past, the planet has undergone change so wrenching that the diversity of life has plummeted. Five of these ancient events were catastrophic enough that they're put in their own category: the so-called Big Five. In what seems like a fantastic coincidence, but is probably no coincidence at all, the history of these events is recovered just as people come to realize that they are causing another one. When it is still too early to say whether it will reach the proportions of the Big Five, it becomes known as the Sixth Extinction."
Section: 1, Chapter: 5
If current trajectories continue, the Sixth Extinction could match the End-Cretaceous within 240 to 540 years in terms of the proportion of species lost. Within this century alone, we stand to lose 20-50% of all species on Earth. The Implications:
- The staggering number of at-risk species demands a massive scaling up of conservation efforts and resources.
- Rapid action is needed to curb the key drivers: habitat loss, overharvesting, invasive species, pollution, and climate change. Given the long lag times in ecosystem responses, what we do in the coming decades will reverberate for thousands of years.
- We must fundamentally redefine our relationship with nature to prevent the complete unraveling of the biosphere on which we depend.
Section: 1, Chapter: 5
The chapter suggests that traditional Indigenous knowledge offers an alternative to extractivism. Indigenous cultures have long seen the earth as a living, sacred being rather than an inert resource.
For example, the Indigenous Bolivian concept of "buen vivir" or "living well" rejects consumerism and emphasizes living in harmony with nature's limits. This philosophy has inspired new constitutions in Bolivia and Ecuador that enshrine the rights of nature.
Policymakers should look to partner with Indigenous communities and learn from traditional ecological knowledge in charting a path beyond fossil fuels. Rather than seeing Indigenous lands as sacrifice zones for extraction, their sovereignty and land rights should be protected. And Indigenous communities should be empowered as leaders of the next economy.
Section: 1, Chapter: 6
This chapter argues that the public sector must play the leading role in the transition to renewable energy. While the private sector can play an important role, only public institutions have the incentive and capacity to drive a rapid, coordinated shift on the scale required.
Examples from Germany and the U.S. show that the most rapid transitions to renewables happen when the public owns key electrical utilities. Private companies will only pursue clean energy if it is immediately profitable. But the public sector can make the long-term investments needed to completely replace fossil fuels. Decentralized public and community ownership of power generation has been key to Germany's renewable energy revolution.
Section: 1, Chapter: 3
The political right engages in rampant climate change denial not because they are ignorant of the science, but because they understand all too well the revolutionary implications of the science. They understand that truly reckoning with the climate crisis means abandoning many core tenets of their free market worldview - a prospect they find intolerable.
While many progressives optimistically argue that climate solutions can be a win-win that doesn't seriously challenge business as usual, the right correctly perceives that climate change means the end of the world as they know it. Progressives would do well to learn from the right's frankness about the true implications of climate change.
Section: 1, Chapter: 1
To build a regenerative society, we can follow these core principles:
- Reduce waste and consumption while increasing quality of life
- Power our lives with 100% renewable energy
- Source food, water and materials locally and sustainably
- Create closed-loop production systems that don't generate pollution
- Protect and restore forests, wetlands, and other carbon-absorbing ecosystems
- Treat care work and community engagement as valuable labor
- Make economic decisions democratically and for the public good
- Share and redistribute wealth to reduce inequality
- Respect Indigenous rights and traditional ecological knowledge
- Build resilience to cope with unavoidable climate shocks
By designing human systems to mimic nature's principles of balance, reciprocity and regeneration, we can turn the crisis into an opportunity to improve quality of life for all. It starts by respecting our interdependence with the living world.
Section: 3, Chapter: 13
When evaluating proposed climate solutions, be skeptical of approaches that:
- Rely primarily on market mechanisms like carbon trading rather than firm limits on pollution
- Fail to hold fossil fuel companies legally and financially accountable for their emissions
- Assume we can continue burning fossil fuels indefinitely as long as they're offset elsewhere
- Disproportionately impact poor and vulnerable communities while benefiting corporations
The climate crisis requires transparent, accessible solutions that put people and the planet ahead of profit and empower communities to take control of their energy and economic futures. Reject anything less.
Section: 2, Chapter: 7
Many governments promote natural gas as a "bridge fuel" to transition from coal to renewable energy. In theory, gas has lower emissions than coal when burned. However, the chapter argues that in practice, under current economic models, gas will not serve as a bridge to clean energy but rather as an impediment.
For gas to be a true bridge, there would need to be strictly enforced regulations to ensure it only substitutes for coal and doesn't displace renewables. And gas extraction would need to be phased out completely within a couple decades - an approach incompatible with the business models of private gas companies. As long as the profit motive dominates, gas companies will keep expanding and delaying the needed transition.
Section: 1, Chapter: 3
This chapter argues that one of the most powerful tools to combat fossil fuel extraction and climate change is the vigorous assertion of Indigenous land rights. Around the world, many of the planet's last untapped fossil fuel reserves are on Indigenous territory - and so too are many of the best sites for renewables like wind and solar.
By fighting to protect their traditional lands and ways of life, Indigenous peoples are on the front lines of the climate fight. However, they need much more support and solidarity from allies to have a fighting chance against massive fossil fuel corporations intent on steamrolling their rights.
Section: 3, Chapter: 11
Contrary to industry and some environmental groups' claims, fracked natural gas is not a "bridge fuel" to help transition from coal to clean energy. Research shows that:
- Methane leakage from fracking operations makes natural gas as damaging to the climate as coal in the short term
- Cheap fracked gas undercuts the economic viability of renewable energy like wind and solar
- Building up gas infrastructure locks in decades more fossil fuel use
The best path forward is to reject all new fossil fuel projects and infrastructure and transition directly to 100% renewable energy as quickly as possible. Half-measures will only delay the necessary transformation.
Section: 2, Chapter: 6
the 1990s, many countries privatized their public electric utilities as part of the push for deregulation. But in recent years, hundreds of cities and towns in Germany have voted to "re-municipalize" their electricity grids - taking them back into public ownership.
The example of the city of Hamburg is instructive. In 2013, citizens there voted to reverse the privatization of their utility in order to speed the transition to clean energy. Private utilities were moving too slowly and prioritizing profits over climate concerns. Re-municipalization has allowed for more democratic control over the energy transition.
Section: 1, Chapter: 3
This chapter argues that climate change is a symptom of a deeper ideological pathology: extractivism. This worldview sees the earth as a resource to be exploited rather than as a living ecosystem on which we depend.
Extractivism is based on the fallacy that the earth's capacity to absorb pollution and provide resources is limitless - that there will always be more frontiers to exploit. It treats entire regions and peoples as disposable "sacrifice zones." And it denies the reality of natural limits to growth.
The climate crisis calls into question this entire worldview. It makes clear that the earth's capacity to absorb our pollution is very finite. A true climate solution will require a fundamental ideological shift to an ethic of nurturing natural systems rather than endlessly extracting from them.
Section: 1, Chapter: 5
"What is wrong with us? What is really preventing us from putting out the fire that is threatening to burn down our collective house?
I think the answer is far more simple than many have led us to believe: we have not done the things that are necessary to lower emissions because those things fundamentally conflict with deregulated capitalism, the reigning ideology for the entire period we have been struggling to find a way out of this crisis. We are stuck because the actions that would give us the best chance of averting catastrophe—and would benefit the vast majority—are extremely threatening to an elite minority that has a stranglehold over our economy, our political process, and most of our major media outlets."
Section: 1, Chapter: 1
Klein delves into the disturbing world of proposed geoengineering "solutions" to climate change, with a focus on Solar Radiation Management (SRM) - i.e. injecting sulphur dioxide particles into the stratosphere to dim the sun's rays. The author attends a Royal Society conference on regulating geoengineering research, where proponents gloss over the huge risks - disrupting rainfall patterns, damaging the ozone layer, ocean acidification, etc. - while opponents argue it treats the symptoms not causes of climate change. The chapter warns that geoengineering is a dangerous distraction from the proven solution of rapidly cutting emissions.
Section: 2, Chapter: 8
The dominant ideological trend of the last several decades - the global triumph of free market fundamentalism (often called neoliberalism) - occurred at the very worst time from a climate perspective. Just when governments needed to intervene decisively to restructure economies away from fossil fuels, they were instead ceding more and more power to the market.
Key pillars of the free market revolution like privatization, deregulation, and corporate free trade deals acted at cross-purposes with the need for government planning to tackle emissions. Fossil fuel companies gained the freedom to pursue ever-riskier sources of carbon such as fracking. Instead of public ownership and planning for a clean energy transition, the energy sector was privatized and deregulated.
Section: 1, Chapter: 2
"A worldview based on regeneration and renewal rather than domination and depletion. This is a far more expansive vision than the familiar eco-critique that stressed smallness and shrinking humanity's impact or 'footprint.' That is simply not an option today, not without genocidal implications: we are here, we are many, and we must use our skills to act. We can, however, change the nature of our actions so that they are constantly growing, rather than extracting life.
Section: 3, Chapter: 13
This chapter explores the concept of "climate debt" - the idea that the rich countries who have benefited the most from burning fossil fuels owe a debt to the poorer countries now suffering the worst impacts of climate change. It looks at specific cases like Ecuador's Yasuni initiative to keep oil in the ground in exchange for foreign aid. And it grapples with the challenges of getting wealthy nations to pay up in an era of austerity and climate denial. Ultimately, the chapter argues that the same extractive logic that ravaged Indigenous lands and developing countries is now destabilizing the whole world - and only a true "Marshall Plan for the Earth" based on justice and reparations offers a way out.
Section: 3, Chapter: 12
The fossil fuel divestment movement, which demands public institutions sell their shares in coal, oil and gas companies, has several key benefits:
- Asserts the wrongness of profiting from wrecking the climate
- Erodes the social license and political influence of the fossil fuel industry
- Frees up funds to be re-invested in climate solutions
- Helps burst the "carbon bubble" of fossil fuel reserves that can never be burned
But divestment is only half the story - the movement must also demand that those funds be re-invested in a just transition to renewable energy, with a focus on the communities most impacted by extraction. By both shutting down destructive industries and scaling up sustainable alternatives, Divest-Invest takes away fossil fuels' power and builds up the solutions.
Section: 3, Chapter: 10
The final chapter argues that responding to the climate crisis is not just about stopping the fossil fuel economy but also about building a new regenerative economy in its place. It looks at real-world examples of communities restoring ecosystems, growing local food systems, democratizing energy production, and creating a culture of caretaking rather than extraction.
Drawing on Indigenous teachings about the duty to protect life for future generations, the chapter calls for a paradigm shift from dominance to reciprocity, from fragmentation to connection, from scarcity to abundance. Moving from extraction to renewal, it concludes, is our only chance to leave our children a world worth inheriting.
Section: 3, Chapter: 13
The invention of the coal-powered steam engine in the late 18th century was critical to enabling European colonialism and the expansion of slavery. Steam power allowed Europe to penetrate into the interiors of colonized continents. Steamships carried slaves and looted raw materials.
The mentality of the colonial extractive economy saw nature as an unlimited input to production and human beings as expendable cogs in the machine. These attitudes were embodied in the brutal plantation economies of the Americas powered by slave labor and the rapacious commodity extraction across the global South. The dawn of fossil fuel-powered capitalism went hand in hand with the racist ideology that entire peoples and regions of the earth were disposable.
Section: 1, Chapter: 5
Groups like the Heartland Institute that promote climate change denial clearly get major funding from wealthy interests like the Koch brothers and ExxonMobil. But beyond just protecting the profits of fossil fuel companies, the climate denial movement crucially serves to protect the interests of the wealthy in general.
If climate change is real, it will require substantial new taxes and regulations on corporations and the rich to pay for the necessary economic transformations. By denying climate change, the wealthy can continue to enjoy their privilege without being asked to sacrifice or change. The anti-tax, anti-regulation climate denial movement provides an intellectual shield for the elites' material interests.
Section: 1, Chapter: 1
The chapter argues that climate action cannot be achieved through a naive partnership with fossil fuel corporations - it requires directly confronting these corporations' entrenched interests. As long as fossil fuel extraction remains profitable, these companies will fight tooth and nail to keep expanding production.
Policymakers must be willing to take bold and assertive steps to curtail fossil fuel extraction and shift investment to clean energy, in the face of fierce corporate opposition. This could include revoking drilling permits, banning new fossil fuel infrastructure, and criminal prosecution of corporations for climate damages. Playing nice will not work - hardball tactics are needed to break the fossil fuel industry's stranglehold over politics and the economy.
Section: 1, Chapter: 4
The introduction argues that climate change changes everything. It calls into question the fundamental economic logic that has governed our societies for decades - the pursuit of endless economic growth fueled by fossil fuels. To truly rise to the challenge of the climate crisis, we will need to dispense with this worldview that sees nature as a bottomless vending machine of resources to exploit. It will require remaking our economies and ways of life in profound ways. The author hopes the climate crisis can be a catalyst for positive economic and social transformation.
Section: 1, Chapter: 1
The climate movement can learn valuable lessons from the Blockadia struggles:
- Highlight the local, human impacts of fossil fuel extraction to mobilize communities
- Don't just say "no" to projects, but propose sustainable economic alternatives
- Emphasize love of place, family, culture and the desire for self-determination
- Build coalitions across unlikely allies, from Indigenous groups to ranchers to labor
- Use every tactic available, from lawsuits to civil disobedience to electoral politics
- Directly challenge corporate power rather than relying on ineffective market schemes
- Connect local fights to the global struggle to avert catastrophic climate change
Building a broad-based movement willing to take bold action to shut down fossil fuels and demand a just transition is the only way to match the scale and urgency of the crisis.
Section: 3, Chapter: 9
Before the push for free trade and globalization, global emissions growth had been slowing - from 4.5% annual increases in the 1960s to about 1% a year in the 1990s. But emissions exploded in the 2000s after global trade barriers came down, shooting up to 3.4% growth per year in 2000-2008, well above previous projections.
Globalization enabled the rise of global manufacturing centered in China, the "factory to the world." As multinational corporations scoured the globe for the cheapest labor costs, they set off a coal boom in China to power all the new production. There proved to be an inextricable link between the exploitation of cheap labor and the exploitation of cheap, dirty energy. Emissions were effectively outsourced from rich consumer countries to developing manufacturing countries.
Section: 1, Chapter: 2
"Policies that simply try to harness the power of the market—by minimally taxing or capping carbon and then getting out of the way—won't be enough. If we are to rise to a challenge that involves altering the very foundation of our economy, we will need every policy tool in the democratic arsenal."
Section: 1, Chapter: 4
Non-Indigenous allies can play a vital role in supporting Indigenous rights as a key climate solution:
- Educate ourselves about the Indigenous lands we inhabit and the treaties governing them
- Build reciprocal, respectful relationships with Indigenous communities on the front lines
- Show up to support their struggles through solidarity actions, amplifying their messages, and funding
- Demand governments honor the treaties and other land-sharing agreements
By standing together to assert Indigenous rights, we can keep fossil fuels in the ground while laying the foundation for a more just, decolonized relationship to the Earth and each other. It's not just a legal but a moral imperative.
Section: 3, Chapter: 11
Based on the evidence, Solar Radiation Management is far too risky to consider as any kind of solution to climate change:
- Injecting sulphur into the stratosphere could disrupt vital monsoon rains in Asia and Africa, endangering food supplies for billions
- It would do nothing to stop ocean acidification which threatens marine life
- It would have to be maintained indefinitely, with potentially catastrophic impacts if stopped
- It could reduce the effectiveness of solar power
- There are too many unknowns around regional impacts to ever safely test or deploy
We must reject this kind of dangerous techno-optimism and focus instead on the proven solutions of cutting emissions and transitioning to renewable energy. Protecting people and the planet is incompatible with the risksof geoengineering.
Section: 2, Chapter: 8
This chapter highlights some key victories and promising strategies of the climate movement so far. It covers the growing fossil fuel divestment campaign, which has challenged the social license of the industry. It looks at the successful fights to stop major pipeline and fracking projects through unlikely alliances. And it examines how some governments, under pressure from activists, are starting to ban extreme energy extraction and divest public funds. The chapter argues that by asserting the primacy of democratic rights over corporate power, the climate movement is beginning to notch significant wins against the odds.
Section: 3, Chapter: 10
This chapter introduces the concept of "Blockadia" - the grassroots resistance movements rising up to directly challenge fossil fuel extraction in their communities. From First Nations battling tar sands pipelines and coal mines in Canada, to Greek villagers protesting gold mining, to Pacific Islanders blockading coal ports in Australia, to French farmers fighting fracking, these Blockadia struggles are building a global network of resistance. They are driven not by traditional environmentalism but a desire for self-determination and to protect their ways of life from destruction.
Section: 3, Chapter: 9
This chapter examines how the climate movement has often put misplaced hope in wealthy philanthropists and "green billionaires" to finance the transition to sustainability. But despite grand pledges, figures like Richard Branson, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg continue to invest heavily in fossil fuels. They propose risky high-tech solutions like geoengineering and carbon capture rather than simply cutting emissions now.
No matter how well-intentioned, depending on voluntary pledges from benevolent elites is an utterly insufficient response to the climate crisis - only mass people-powered movements can overcome fossil fuel interests.
Section: 2, Chapter: 7
To build a strong social mandate for climate action, policies must be designed to tangibly benefit ordinary people. Key strategies include:
- Massive public investments in clean energy and transportation infrastructure, creating millions of good-paying union jobs
- Retraining and transition support for workers in fossil fuel industries
- Regulations requiring local hiring and domestic manufacturing for clean energy projects
- Programs to reduce energy costs for consumers, especially low-income households
- Empowering communities to own and control renewable energy projects, rather than just being passive recipients
Policymakers must resist corporate pressure to design climate policies in ways that benefit big business at the expense of workers and communities. Only a "people first" approach can build a lasting consensus for bold climate action.
Section: 1, Chapter: 4
This chapter discusses how many large environmental organizations have compromised their values and effectiveness by partnering with and taking money from the very fossil fuel companies most responsible for climate change. Groups like the Environmental Defense Fund, The Nature Conservancy, and the Sierra Club have at times supported natural gas fracking, carbon trading schemes, and other false solutions that allow fossil fuel extraction to continue largely unabated. This is contrasted with the more confrontational grassroots groups fighting fossil fuel infrastructure in their communities.
Section: 2, Chapter: 6
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In "The Sixth Extinction," Elizabeth Kolbert takes us on a riveting journey through the tumultuous history of life on Earth, revealing how human activity is driving a catastrophic modern extinction event that may ultimately imperil our own survival.
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This Changes Everything Book Summary
Naomi Klein
In "This Changes Everything," Naomi Klein argues that the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core "free market" ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems - and that in the process, we have the chance to create a safer and more just world.
