Naomi Klein's "This Changes Everything: Capitalism versus The Climate" does a marvelous job at distilling the factors that have inhibited action on climate change. Klein's strength as an author is her ability to be able to explain very complex things without a) getting trapped in jargon, b) pursuing faux objectivity, and c) condescending to her audience. Her essential thesis is that our growing awareness of the climate crisis has emerged just as trends in politics and economics (i.e., neo-liberalism, free-market economics, political populism, globalization, industrialization, a worship of technological progress) have developed to make action on this awareness difficult if not impossible. Climate change has the potential to change everything about our societies and resistance to climate change action is precisely for this reason: action fundamentally alters everything that underpins a neoliberal, capitalist economy and political system. Klein also shows that solutions centered around technology (i.e., bio fuels, carbon capture technology, and the horrifying proposals to manipulate the climate through technological innovation) and the benevolence of billionaires will not work. Instead, the solution is going to come from activism from the ground up that will be able to challenge things. I feel that Klein is stronger on the prognosis than the solutions but overall, the book is an essential read in the library of any person thinking about climate change and concerns around the environment.