Naomi Klein has persuaded her publishers to slash the price of ‘the Shock Doctrine’, her iconic book about disaster capitalism. But if I were her agent, I’d be encouraging her to smash out a new chapter of her more recent work, ‘This Changes Everything’.
The climate crisis, she argues, is a civilisational wake-up call. It shows that we need deep, systemic change. As the title proclaims, it changes everything.
Unfortunately, those making the decisions these past 40 years convinced themselves that hitting the snooze button was a viable option. Covid-19 has smashed that slumbering notion.
