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  • Published: 29 September 2020
  • ISBN: 9780141991306
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $26.99

On Fire

The Burning Case for a Green New Deal




No.1 international and New York Times bestselling author Naomi Klein makes the case for a Green New Deal

For more than twenty years, Naomi Klein has been the foremost chronicler of the economic war waged on both people and planet - and an unapologetic champion of a sweeping environmental agenda with justice at its centre. On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal gathers for the first time more than a decade of her impassioned writing, and pairs it with new material on the staggeringly high stakes of our immediate political and economic choices.

With reports spanning from the ghostly Great Barrier Reef to the smoke-choked skies of the Pacific Northwest, to post-hurricane Puerto Rico, to a Vatican attempting an unprecedented 'ecological conversion', Klein makes the case that we will rise to the existential challenge of climate change only if we are willing to transform the systems that produced this crisis.

An expansive, far-ranging exploration that sees the battle for a greener world as indistinguishable from the fight for our lives, On Fire captures the burning urgency of the climate crisis, as well as the fiery energy of a rising political movement demanding a catalytic Green New Deal.

  • Published: 29 September 2020
  • ISBN: 9780141991306
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $26.99

About the author

Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker, and the best-selling author of Doppelganger, No Logo, The Shock Doctrine and other acclaimed books, which have been translated into 35 languages. She is associate professor of geography and codirector of the Centre for Climate Justice at the University of British Columbia, and writes a regular column for the Guardian. Doppelganger was the winner of the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction and named one of the ten best books of the year by New York magazine, Slate, and Time.

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Praise for On Fire

Naomi Klein is a precious gift: every time I read her words, my heart leaps from sadness and anger to action. She takes us deep, down to the roots of what is wrong - and then up, up to a height from which we can see what must be done. Everything we love is at stake now: these writings are our best and brightest hope.

Emma Thompson

Naomi Klein's work has always moved and guided me. She is the great chronicler of our age of climate emergency, an inspirer of generations

Greta Thunberg

Naomi Klein applies her fine, fierce and meticulous mind to the greatest, most urgent questions of our times. . . . I count her among the most inspirational political thinkers in the world today.

Arundhati Roy

A critically important thought-leader in these perilous times, a necessary voice as a courageous movement of movements rises from the ashes.

Michelle Alexander, author of THE NEW JIM CROW

The greatest theorist of climate change.

Amitav Ghosh

Naomi is like a great doctor - she can diagnose problems nobody else sees.

Alfonso Cuarón

An invigorating message of climate hope through social transformation. Bring on the revolution.

Fred Pearce, New Scientist

In On Fire, the longstanding critic of corporate globalisation argues for a much more comprehensive economic reboot ... a long-lensed critique about humanity's relationship to nature.

Jonathan Ford, Financial Times

A hopeful vision of the future ... In these extraordinary times it should appeal to a new set of readers looking for extreme solutions to match the extremity of the crisis. This is Klein doing what she does best: 'not being polite and not playing by the rules'.

Harriet Constable, Geographical Magazine

A powerful and righteous blast against defeatism.

Andrew Lynch, Business Post

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