This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

2014 • 576 pages

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The best-selling author of The Shock Doctor explains why the environmental crisis challenges us to abandon "free market" ideologies and remake political systems, arguing that a massive reduction of greenhouse emissions may offer a best chance for correcting economic challenges. 150,000 first printing.

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Absolutely phenomenal. I've recommended this to many people already, and I'll continue to do so. It has been a while since a book has changed my thinking so dramatically and made me question so much of my life and work.

March 24, 2015

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