Review Summaries

• The official page positions it as one of the most important books on climate change.

Reviews

• 資本主義の限界

  環境問題を、既存の枠組み、企業、国家の努力だけでは解決することは無理があり、グローバルな解決が必要ということがわかりやすく書かれている。

• まだ熟読中ですが

  相変わらずのナオミ・クラインぶしです。資本主義（あるいは新自由主義）の行き着く先を、地球温暖化を代表とする課題に絡めて糾弾するという、いつものナオミ講談の一席です。考証は行き届いているような体裁をとっていますし、論旨は明瞭、かつ激烈ですから、まあ、なかなかのアジ演説と言えます。 私は必ずしも、著者の言うところの細部にまで、全面的には同調しません。私は元職業的物理学研究者で、たまたま、温暖化の機構などについて、またその対策の推進のあり方について、その内情を幾らか詳細に知っているからです。もしかしたら、著者は自然科学の教養、あるいは自然科学的な論理の展開法にはいささか欠けているのかもしれませんね。そのために、引用がずいぶん偏っていて、自分に都合の悪い証拠、論説は無視しているのが透けて見えてしまいます。別の著で、ナオミ自身が信用できないとして排斥している機関の報告を今度は自分の説を立証するために引いてきているところさえもあります。 さて、総合してどのように考えたらいいのでしょう。レビュー、あるいは批評とは難しいものですね。それでも、私はこの著書を高く買うのです。たしかにある程度の傷はありますが、グローバリズム、あるいはその結果としての経済、権力の独占は結局のところ人間社会にカタストロフをもたらす、という主題についての認識には基本的に賛成します。これだけ、丁寧にそれを説きすすめるという作業は並大抵のことではできません。 もっと進んで、経済成長を錦の御旗としている現代一般の思潮について十分に分析をしたうえで、明確に反旗を掲げてくれればとも思いますが、それはないものねだりなのでしょう。 迷いましたがあえて減点なしで評価します。

• Why we haven't change anything?

  This book clearly describes why we haven't make any clear difference on climate crisis, instead keep emitting carbon dioxide and making the earth warmer and warmer. Carbon credit (Market mechanism) , any miracle high tech or super entrepreneur won't stop climate change unless we radically change what we used to think and act so far. So rather than spending our effort on these ill-fated approach, we must change this. I can highly recommend this book to those who want to solve climate crisis. However, as the critic said, this book seems not be powerful enough to change those who believe capitalism. That is why we must take action from grassroots.

• 持続可能な社会への世界観の転換

  著者のNaomi Klein氏はジャーナリストですが、良く調べ、良く考え、大局的な視点で書かれた本文466ページは読み応えがあります。第一部は地球温暖化問題の歩んだ不幸な道筋について。第二部は地球温暖化問題の深刻さと資本主義既存路線での問題解決の可能性の低さについて。第三部は地球温暖化問題を解決するために必要な社会運動について。世界銀行による警告：このままでは2100年までに地球温暖化4℃、海面上昇1〜2ｍのリスク。Jeremy Graham氏の指摘する資本主義の欠陥：飽くなき成長の追求に地球の資源の有限性と長期的健全性を織り込めていない。資本主義が地球温暖化防止に失敗するリスクの象徴としての企業による化石燃料資源への投資：地球温暖化を２℃以内に抑えるための炭素排出量上限に対して、既に５倍の炭素を含む化石燃料資源の権益が確定埋蔵量として将来の生産の為に企業に確保されている現状。（これを可視化しているCarbon Trackerの取り組みは環境問題のツールとして参考になる。）この様な状況から、小さいコミュイティで、環境問題への対応を通して、地域の水、空気、土地を守るために、より民主的な意思決定プロセスへの強い希求が生まれており、著者は共同体やコモンズといった草の根レベルの活動とそのネットワークから始まる社会運動に活路を見出す。その為には、現在の資本主義の搾取的で個人主義的な世界観から脱し、持続可能な輪廻転生的な世界観（自然の搾取ではなく、自然との共存を基本とした価値観）への転換が必要と訴える。また地球温暖化対策に必要と考えられる巨大な政策投資は、リベラルにとって積み残された課題である経済的により公平な社会の実現も可能にする機会、との主張。足るを知る清貧の思想や自然の恵みに感謝する自然との共存意識など日本人には馴染みのある思想ですが、西洋の先進国が信じてきた資本主義、その背景にあるマテリアリズムからは異文化のアイディアと捉えられている節があり目から鱗でした。持続可能な経済が、これらのアイディアの実践で可能なのであれば、日本の文化や考え方が、何かの役に立つかも知れません。一方、持続可能な社会をこれからの時代に実現するために、民主的で、合理的な取り組みを、想像力豊かに、建設的に追求する姿勢は見習いたい。もちろん全てのアイディアに賛成できる訳ではありませんが、早く翻訳が出てより多くの方に読まれることを願います。

• A goldmine of information

  It is a global perspective on climate change and how capitalism had become a source of malice or an engine that drive rapacious and unscrupulous corporate competition -- in some or in many cases driving communities apart with an etched slogan 'individualism',,all of which are being weaved together through a web of policies mostly in favor of fossil fuel. Read this book to see how can the global energy system be transitioned to a responsible clean energy that won't hurt jobs, but can create just as many, you be the judge.

• Time to get a move on!

  Our planet is dying: our Earth, our one and only beautiful blue planet, is rapidly becoming less able to sustain life. This Changes Everything is a brilliantly written, accessible, thoroughly researched, and convincing account of climate change that offers hope. It doesn't have to happen: there is still a narrowing window of time in which we can reverse the processes and a global grassroots movement is gathering determined to bring about the necessary change. Everyone has a part to play: it can no longer be left to remote authority. The writing has long been on the wall. Before Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the UN, declared climate change the most serious problem confronting humankind, reports by august scientific institutions and global charities had warned about the menacing developments and been brushed aside by public and politicians. Prevailing economics and business with strong political support allied to bury the problem and worked to cast doubt on the authoritative scientific conclusions. In the 1980s, under President Reagan US environmental agencies and their staff were sidelined and disempowered. Even now the BBC treats UKIP with more respect than the Green Party. Yet the message is proving correct: we are living beyond our means. We depend on global commons and are behaving like a flock of voracious goats, consuming and polluting the future of humankind. Our conventional economies based on extractive industries, use of carbon-based energy sources, and aimed at economic growth are incompatible with the survival of life on earth and everywhere the canaries are falling silent and dropping off their perches. Wildlife has been reduced by 50% in 40 years. In London, Hallowe'en 2014 was the warmest every recorded (32 deg C on my balcony) and delightfully sunny - what's not to like? That some effects of global warming are positive - they can plant forests in Iceland where none were possible and the UK has the beginnings of a wine industry - confuses the issue. In the long term there is only catastrophe if we go on as we are doing. Naomi Klein has pursued her subject through the corruption of US environmental charities by big energy, the WTO, conferences of deniers, an alarming meeting of climate changers, polluting mines, oil wells, fracking sites, pipelines and everywhere finds opposition that is highly active, often successful, and growing worldwide. Small communities threatened by politically supported energy companies can seldom prevail and only a massive global grassroots movement can exert sufficient pressure to force the necessary comprehensive change in the whole political, economic, and business nexus including energy companies, extractive industries, the agreements and rules of the World Trade Organisation and much more. I found it difficult to put down Naomi Klein's book which is as hard-hitting and thought-provoking as No Logo and the Shock Doctrine. It is easy to despair of the whole situation, and she finds reason for real hope. Catastrophe is not inevitable. A global coalition is building of environmental organisations large and small. This book is addressed to the intelligent and concerned grassroots: we, the people have to act for the future where power and authority have failed. It's the right message and just in time. The movement is off the ground, but it's a long way to go and we have to get a move on.

• Todo ambientalista deve ler!

  Super importante para entender e abrir os olhos para esse embate real (capitalismo x clima), que não é fantasia, pois a autora, como boa jornalista, demonstra por n's exemplos reais. Fazendo questão de apontar a necessidade de mudança do nosso sistema que prejudica tanto o nosso planeta e coloca a nossa própria existência em risco.

• Please consider reading this book. Whether you agree or disagree it will be a page turner.

  I'm old and I don't have any kids, but somehow I still care about what happens to people in the next few years and even about what happens after I'm gone. There's a lot of unnecessary suffering that will likely be coming along sooner rather than later due to our unsustainable habits. There is still the possibility of having a reasonably comfortable future if we take stock of what's explained so clearly in this book. However it seems that there's not much time remaining to change our course. I hope you'll read this book. It could make a difference. We might not have to look back and think about what might have been possible. But it seems that we're down to the point where every month that goes by of sitting on the fence and diddling is going to multiply the suffering many fold. I don't think it has to work out that way. Many thanks to Naomi Klein for making the effort to inform us.

• a must read with one thing missing

  Naomi has written from her heart a "cannot put down" series of stories that are truly impactful. Makes me want to do something. I will. Very well researched with hundreds of references spanning numerous facets of life. One thing I think is missing though. The call for each of us to do something simple like boycott fossil fuels - first for a day/ month, then 2, 3 and so one until we are off the stuff. I sold my car and rarely drive, I sold my big house and live in a half-sized, more efficient apartment close to work. And Lord willing, I will cut back my meat eating by 80% or more as my New Year's resolution. If each of us took these kinds of steps, it would not be enough, but it would be a tsunami to the fossil fuel and financial sectors. Or maybe this call is not missing from Naomi's book. Maybe she has set us up for just such a change in ourselves! Bless you Naomi! You encouraged me to do even more! Nelson Lee Climate Steward

• fondamentale

  Un libro necessario. La Klein dando seguito a No logo e a Schok economo traccia un segno indelebile sulla storia del X secolo. Un segno che è una strada da seguire inevitabilmente. Razionale ed intuitiva come sempre, grande giornalista che travalica la cronaca, interpretandola facendo più di quelle che possiamo pensare previsioni. Indica un futuro con il quale il mondo deve fare i conti.

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