Climate Change Activism

Klein reports that climate change activists are working around the globe to reduce emissions and offer alternative solutions to the world’s dependency on energy provided by the fossil-fuel industry. The U.S., one of the main centers of the movement, must cut its emissions this decade in order to bring China and India and other developing nations into the fold by the next decade. Klein believes that addressing climatic problems will help advance other causes including most importantly the global economy. The time is right for change and greater understanding of the impact of climate change. According to Klein, the right-wing ideology that is diametrically opposed to climate change activism has less impact now than it did in the 80s and 90s. People are seeing evidence of the destruction caused by global warming themselves and are on to the big oil companies that keep billionaires...