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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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TL;DR
In order to stand a chance against catastrophic impacts of climate change, we need to fundamentally change the global economy. Seriously, this book is a great read.
I do think the book was unnecessarily long; she could've gotten the point across in fewer words (and I would've been able to finish the book sooner lol). I lost motivation to read a couple of times due to this, but hey! I made it in the end. This is ultimately what made me go from a true 5/5 rating to a 4.5/5 rating.
I also lowkey loved the sass
the Geoclique is crammed with overconfident men prone to complimenting each other on their fearsome brainpower. At one end you have Bill Gates, the movement's sugar daddy, who once remarked that it was difficult for him to decide which was more important, his work on computer software or inoculations, because they both rank “right up there with the printing press and fire.” At the other end is Russ George, the U.S. entrepreneus who has been labeled a “rogue geoengineer” for dumping some one hundred tons of iron sulphate off the coast of British Columbia in 2012.
This is a monster of a book, packed and over packed with information and ideas... It's gonna take a while to digest this Thanksgiving dinner.
(I listened to the audio version and, through no discernable fault of the narrator, had difficulty staying focused. For some reason her voice kept turning into a white noise, relaxing but void of meeting.)
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.
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