I was hoping for much more from this. I think she starts to make a good case for the incompatibility of neoliberialsm/globalization/short term profits/endless growth/etc with a stable climate system. The overarching (almost religious) belief that somebody will think of a simple technical fix combined with the inability to imagine that our economic and political systems could (or should) be changed in even a minor way has paralyzed our ability to react to this crisis. And really, humans are terrible at assessing long term risks.

From a strong start, it feels like she kind of loses where we can go from here. There is a whole long section on the hope that native land titles can slow down resource extraction, but at the end of the day, a bit of muted protest doesn't seem to have more than a minor impact on the accelerating rate of extraction.

Maybe that seems symptomatic of what was missing from this book. The book is filled with lots of small stories from the front lines (blockade-dia) but as Occupy was successful at raising issues for a brief period, very little has come from it. The world has already committed itself to 1.5-2C of warming, and with current international inaction looking like another decade (or more) of rising emissions likely making that look even higher.

Our inability to respond to this growing crisis by even making small incremental changes to our political/economic systems (let alone completely re-imagine what they will need to be in the future) seems to say that THIS hasn't really changed anything. A increasingly unstable climate (along with species extinctions, pollution, etc) will quite possibly change everything but at this point, there seems to be very little evidence that much of the possible actions in this book have changed much of anything.