On Fire

Naomi Klein is very good at revealing the connections between the climate crisis and the world's other escalating problems like income equality, systemic racism, increase of migration... We've established a world order that runs on capitalism, and the players that earn the most from the status quo, are the ones keeping us from changing the system equations towards a more holistic, people- and planet-friendly outcome.

It gave me a new perspective on why the climate crisis seems to find the hardest opponents in places like North America and Australia: Societies that were built on colonialism, are used to endless resources. When resources got scarce, they'd simply move the frontier, invade new territories. Capitalism and the culture of endless taking!

This book is a long introduction, and a couple of essays of Klein from the last couple of years. It does a good job at prodding the subject matter from different angles (one being the pope), and has surprisingly little overlap, despite the fact that the essays were stand-alone texts.