Reviewed by Karen Rudin, AWC Zurich
Do you need a kick-start to pull you out of the winter doldrums? If so, look no further than Naomi Klein’s book On Fire – The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal. Ms. Klein is a Canadian journalist, and her research is thorough and her writing arresting. She has specialized in exposing the evils of the corporatocracy in such books as No Logo and This Changes Everything, and in this book she looks at one of the major proposals for a cure for the climate crisis – the Green New Deal. She compares it to FDR’s New Deal of the 1930s, which was a radical program to pull the US out of economic crisis. This time the crisis is environmental – but not only: she makes it clear that sweeping basic changes need to be made to economic inequality as well. The climate crisis is also a humanitarian crisis. Only by tackling climate change, inequality and the basic tenets of our society’s corporate structure does humanity have a chance.
Inspiration on a very basic level indeed.
