"The really inconvenient truth about global warming is that it's not about carbon--it's about capitalism. We can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed system and build something radically better. Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, tackles the most profound threat humanity has ever faced: the war our economic model is waging against life on earth. Klein exposes the myths that are clouding the climate debate. Our addiction to profit and growth is digging us in deeper every day. We have been told it's impossible to get off fossil fuels when in fact we know exactly how to do it--it just requires breaking every rule in the 'free-market' playbook: reining in corporate power, rebuilding local economies and reclaiming our democracies. Are we too greedy and selfish to rise to this challenge? In fact, the fight back is already succeeding in ways both surprising and inspiring. Climate change, Klein argues, is a civilizational wake-up call, a powerful message delivered in the language of fires, floods, storms and droughts. Confronting it is no longer about changing the light bulbs. It's about changing the world--before the world changes so drastically that no one is safe. Naomi Klein writes books that redefine an era. No Logo did so for globalization. The Shock Doctrine changed the way we think about austerity. 'This Changes Everything' upends the debate about the stormy era already upon us. Born in Montreal, Naomi Klein is a contributing editor for Harper's, a reporter for Rolling Stone, and a syndicated columnist for The Nation and the Guardian"--Provided by publisher.