Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein, the author of the book, is a Canadian writer and activist best known for her critiques of capitalism and climate change inaction. She explains in the introduction that she has been writing about the latter subject for over a decade and has also produced films and co-founded an organization called The Leap, which brought together a coalition of movements from progressive causes to create a plan for combatting climate change. The essays in the collection were written by Klein from 2010-2019.

In addition to political, economic, and social critique, Klein occasionally comments on how these topics affect her personally, most notably in the essay "Season of Smoke." In this piece, she writes of visiting her parents in British Columbia during a period of record-breaking wildfires and the concern she felt about how her four-year-old son's future would be affected by climate change.

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