Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything
This Changes Everything is a book that was created to disprove what people have chosen to believe in regards to climate change and their involvement in it. Naomi Klein forces people to remember climate change and disallow from being swept under the rug by climate change deniers. In this book, Klein attempts to accomplish the nearly impossible task of making everyone reflect on how much harm they have done to the environment. She debunks arguments against climate change in an attempt to get people to change their detrimental habits and cease the worsening of the quality of the earth.
One of the only times people are forced to acknowledge the threat of climate change is when a natural disaster takes place. Only then are they given a physical manifestation of the damage they have done upon the earth. …show more content…
Some have gone as far as comparing being required to take care of the earth to Nazi Germany (32). These comparisons to times of extreme oppression and suffering have been created out of a refusal to admit to being wrong.
When new information comes out about climate change it is easy to accept that information if it confirms something you had believed prior to (37). So when information that goes against your current position on climate change comes out it is hard to accept as being something positive. This attitude is what leads to comparisons being made to nearly every negative time in our history. Yet something positive can come out of people looking to the past for guidance on how to deal with climate change. For example, solar power has always been a part of Natives' way of life (393). This ideology led to people being trained on how to use solar boxes and panels to lessen the detrimental effects of heating a house the normal way. This acceptance of climate change is out of cultural obligation to do
One of the only times people are forced to acknowledge the threat of climate change is when a natural disaster takes place. Only then are they given a physical manifestation of the damage they have done upon the earth. …show more content…
Some have gone as far as comparing being required to take care of the earth to Nazi Germany (32). These comparisons to times of extreme oppression and suffering have been created out of a refusal to admit to being wrong.
When new information comes out about climate change it is easy to accept that information if it confirms something you had believed prior to (37). So when information that goes against your current position on climate change comes out it is hard to accept as being something positive. This attitude is what leads to comparisons being made to nearly every negative time in our history. Yet something positive can come out of people looking to the past for guidance on how to deal with climate change. For example, solar power has always been a part of Natives' way of life (393). This ideology led to people being trained on how to use solar boxes and panels to lessen the detrimental effects of heating a house the normal way. This acceptance of climate change is out of cultural obligation to do