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Books & Films — On Fire
Description
For more than a decade, Naomi Klein has documented the movement of the climate crisis from future threat to a burning emergency.
She has been among the first to make the case for what is now called the Green New Deal – a vision for transforming our economies to battle climate breakdown and rampant inequality at the same time. In our era of rising seas and rising hate, she argues that only this kind of bold, roots-up action has a chance of rousing us to fight for our lives while there is still time.
On Fire’s long-form essays, based on her extensive research and reporting, show Klein at her most prophetic and philosophical, investigating the climate crisis not only as a profound political challenge but as a spiritual and imaginative one as well. Delving into the clash between ecological time and our culture of “perpetual now”; the soaring history of rapid human change in the face of grave threats; rising white supremacy and fortressed borders as a form of “climate barbarism” and more, this is a rousing call to transformation – and a dire warning about what awaits if we fail to act.
With dispatches from the ghostly Great Barrier Reef to the smoke-choked skies of the Pacific Northwest, to post-hurricane Puerto Rico, to a Vatican waking up to the case for radical change, recognizing that we will rise to the existential challenge of climate change only if we are willing to transform the systems that produced this crisis — On Fire captures the burning urgency of the climate crisis, as well as the fiery energy of a global movement demanding a catalytic Green New Deal.
Learn about the Green New Deal in The Leap’s online book club for On Fire. Over three webinars the bookclub speakers dove into topics like wealth redistribution and reparations; tapping into the power of strikes to win a Green New Deal; what big tech has to do with the climate crisis; and more. The line-up of speakers — including brilliant writers, organizers, and journalists — spanned movements and geographies and ended with a live Q&A with Naomi. Watch all three bookclub webinars here: http://theleap.org/book-club
Praise Quotes
Bill McKibben
“Naomi Klein is the intellectual godmother of the Green New Deal—which just happens to be the most important idea in the world right now.”
Arundhati Roy
“Naomi Klein applies her fine, fierce and meticulous mind to the greatest, most urgent questions of our times . . . . I count her among the most inspirational political thinkers in the world today.”
Greta Thunberg
“Naomi Klein’s work has always moved and guided me. She is the great chronicler of our age of climate emergency, an inspirer of generations.”
Amitav Ghosh
“The greatest theorist of climate change.”
Alfonso Cuarón
“Naomi is like a great doctor – she can diagnose problems nobody else sees.”
Emma Thompson
“Naomi Klein is a precious gift: every time I read her words, my heart leaps from sadness and anger to action. She takes us deep, down to the roots of what is wrong—and then up, up to a height from which we can see what must be done. Everything we love is at stake now: these writings are our best and brightest hope.”
Michelle Alexander
“A critically important thought-leader in these perilous times, a necessary voice as a courageous movement of movements rises from the ashes.”
Praise Reviews
Los Angeles Times
“Canadian writer and activist Naomi Klein has been one of the most forceful and even lyrical voices for social justice for decades . . . . Today, this transformative program has a name: the Green New Deal. But before Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her political colleagues popularized the Green New Deal, Klein backed the Leap Manifesto, a visionary document intended as a yardstick (or meter-stick, for Canadians like Klein and me) to measure any climate crisis proposal against: You must be this bold to save the planet. Anything less is cowardice and depraved indifference to the plight of our children and (especially) the children of poor people in poor countries . . . . It’s an urgent book that never surrenders hope, committed to the idea that we can act and insistent that we must. Klein’s message could not be more timely, because the time for action is now.”
Texas Observer
“With admirable concision, passion, and coherence . . . On Fire is a clarion call to that kind of courage and ambition, and for anyone inclined toward hope and action over resignation and denial, it’s inspiring.”
New York Times
“If I were a rich man, I’d buy 245 million copies of Naomi Klein’s ‘On Fire’ and hand-deliver them to every eligible voter in America…because it makes a strong case for tackling the climate crisis as not just an urgent undertaking, but an inspiring one.”
Kirkus Reviews
“An impassioned anthology of the author’s evidence-based pleas to alleviate climate change . . . . What separates Klein from many other advocates for a Green New Deal is her balanced combination of idealism and politics-based realism . . . . Another important addition to the literature on the most essential issue of our day.”
Booklist
“Whether speaking at a Vatican conference on a papal climate encyclical or investigating the extreme disasters of wildfires, droughts, hurricanes, and floods, Klein’s passion for action reflects the political, social, and scientific gridlock that makes such sweeping, transformational legislation imperative. Her zeal and eloquence will inspire, engage, and motivate those who are concerned about the planet’s future to become even more involved in taking any and all possible steps to curb or reverse further disruption and destruction.”
Boston Globe
” . . . she sets out her argument with a precision that matches her passion….This is a scorching volume for a heated time. The fire next time, it turns out, is now.”
Lit Hub
“For a quarter century, now, Naomi Klein has been an outspoken and fearless voice on that which late-stage hyper-capitalism has wrought upon the world: income inequality, overreaching corporate power, for-profit empire building and, of course, the consequent climate crisis . . . . Klein collects her longform writing on the climate crisis—and somehow manages to strike a hopeful note as she calls for a radical commitment to the Green New Deal, the kind of collective mobilization that saved us from the brink in WWII, and might be our only hope now.”
Boston Globe
“Indeed, these 320 pages constitute Donald Trump’s worst nightmare: not only a plan to address a climate crisis he doesn’t think exists (or blames on the Chinese), but also a menu of just about everything he abhors — with special emphasis on a vision of immigration that does not include a border wall . . . . The most effective and persuasive part of this book is in its first 53 pages, written as an introduction to what follows. In those pages she sets out her argument with a precision that matches her passion . . . . This is a scorching volume for a heated time. The fire next time, it turns out, is now.”
Selected Video and Press
The Intercept, Sept 13, 2019
Greta Thunberg on the climate fight: “If we can save the banks, then we can save the world”
Greta Thunberg joined Naomi Klein this week for a conversation on the climate emergency.
The Intercept, Sept 15, 2019
What’s in a Trump Straw?
The overpriced scraps of pre-landfill known as Trump Straws can actually tell us a whole lot about why our planet’s on fire.
The Intercept, Sept 16, 2019
Only a Green New Deal can Douse the Fires of Eco-Fascism
We have to confront the ways in which the fires of climate breakdown are already intersecting with white supremacy and surging xenophobia.
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Publishing information.
Originally published in 2019, On Fire has been published in over 20 languages.
For all other languages/territories, please contact Roam Agency.