wind power, 16, 67, 70, 97, 102, 118, 122, 124, 127, 131–32, 147, 215, 237
in combined-cycle plant, 129
fracking’s negative impact on, 129, 144n
large offshore, 131
manufacturers in, 68
private sector and, 100–101
Wood, Lowell, 268n, 271, 280, 288
Woolsey, R. James, 53
Woolworth, 16
workers, see labor; trade unions
in Industrial Revolution, 171
public sector, 157
work hours, shorter, 93–94
World Academy of Sciences, 257
World Bank, 47–48, 59, 81, 152, 180, 219, 359
austerity promoted by, 77
on carbon tax, 114
free market ideology and, 62
new coal projects opposed by, 348–49
on 2 degrees Celsius limit, 12–13
World Conference Against Racism (2001), 414
World Conference on the Changing Atmosphere, 55, 73–74
World Economic Forum, 112
World Future Council, 97
World Health Organization, 351
world markets, liberation of, 20–21
World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, 444n
World Resources Institute, 196, 226
World Trade Organization (WTO), 5, 16, 19, 39, 76, 77, 80, 84
green energy programs challenged by, 64–65, 68–73, 126
worldview:
communitarian, 36, 59, 182, 460, 461, 462, 466
dominance-based, 36–37, 41, 44, 56–57, 59–60, 75, 177, 184, 186, 424, 462
extractivist, see extractivism
regenerative, 23, 25, 60–61, 182, 395, 396, 424, 442–48
World War I, collective sacrifice in, 16, 115
World War II:
collective sacrifice in, 16–17, 115–16
social programs in wake of, 10
World Wildlife Fund, 84, 196, 264
World Wind Energy Association, 132
World Wrestling Entertainment, 212n
Wretched of the Earth, The (Fanon), 459
Wright, Wayne, 68
Wyoming, 215, 320
Xcel Energy, 98–99
Xeni Gwet’in First Nation, 345
Yale University, 36, 56
Yanza, Luis, 291
Yara, 135
Yasuní-ITT initiative, 410
Yasuní rainforest, 408–11
Yergin, Daniel, 311
Yoshitani, Miya, 155–56
Young, Neil, 383–84
Youngstown, Ohio, 329
zero-carbon energy sources, 18, 128
zero-carbon public services, 19–20
zero-waste design, 16
Zimbabwe, famine in, 272
Simon & Schuster
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020
www.SimonandSchuster.com
Copyright © 2014 by Naomi Klein
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. For information address Simon & Schuster Subsidiary Rights Department, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020.
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition September 2014
SIMON & SCHUSTER and colophon are registered trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
The Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau can bring authors to your live event. For more information or to book an event, contact the Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau at 1-866-248-3049 or visit our website at www.simonspeakers.com.
Interior design by Joy O’Meara
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Klein, Naomi, 1970–
This changes everything : capitalism vs. the climate / Naomi Klein.—First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Environmental economics. 2. Environmental policy—Economic aspects. 3. Climatic changes—Economic aspects. 4. Global environmental change—Economic aspects. 5. Capitalism. I. Title.
HC79.E5K56 2014
363.738'74—dc23 2014013864
ISBN 978-1-4516-9738-4
ISBN 978-1-4516-9740-7 (ebook)