Naomi Klein is the award-winning author of international bestsellers including This Changes Everything, The Shock Doctrine, No Logo, No Is Not Enough, and On Fire, which have been published in more than thirty-five languages. She is an associate professor in the department of geography at the University of British Columbia, the founding co-director of UBC''s Centre of Climate Justice, and an honorary professor of Media and Climate at Rutgers University. Her writing has appeared in leading publications around the world, and she has just launched a regular column for The Guardian.>
Fort McMurray, dans le nord de l'Alberta (Canada), est le Klondike d'une ruée vers l'or du XXIe siècle, ville-champignon au milieu d'un enfer écologique, où des travailleurs affluent de partout attirés par les promesses de boom économique. L'or qu'ils convoitent : les gisements de sables bitumineux, le pétrole le plus sale qui existe et qui est exploité au péril de la planète entière par les compagnies pétrolières comme Total. Nancy Huston est allée voir de ses propres yeux ce qui se passait dans son Alberta natale et a découvert, abasourdie, une dévastation qu'elle raconte ici en un cri de colère et d'indignation.
BRUT réunit également les voix de personnes qui ont vu la catastrophe de près : Naomi Klein, David Dufresne et Melina Laboucan-Massimo, une militante amérindienne qui se bat en première ligne.
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 center. In lucid, elegant dispatches from the frontlines of contemporary natural disaster, she pens surging, indispensable essays for a wide public: prescient advisories and dire warnings of what future awaits us if we refuse to act, as well as hopeful glimpses of a far better future. 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. These long-form essays show Klein at her most prophetic and philosophical, investigating the climate crisis not only as a profound political challenge but as a spiritual and imaginative one, as well. Delving into topics ranging from the clash between ecological time and our culture of 'perpetual now,' to the soaring history of humans changing and evolving rapidly in the face of grave threats, to rising white supremacy and fortressed borders as a form of 'climate barbarism,' this is a rousing call to action for a planet on the brink. With reports spanning from the ghostly Great Barrier Reef, to the annual 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.
De la conférence de Seattle (1999) aux événements tragiques du 11 septembre 2001, ces textes percutants de l'auteur de No logo (Actes Sud, 2001) composent le journal d'une militante qui lutte avec acharnement contre la "mal-mondialisation".
Dès sa parution, le livre No logo de Naomi Klein a fait boule de neige. Très rapidement traduit en une quinzaine de langues, la "bible" de tout le mouvement antimondialisation n'a cessé de nourrir la réflexion des militants du village Global qui luttent contre l'industrie du marketing et la culture du branding. Un site Internet a d'ailleurs été créé (www.nologo.org), qui est devenu un véritable lieu de mobilisation et de sensibilisation pour tous ces militants.
Dans le sillage de son propre mouvement de réflexion, d'analyse et de dénonciation, Naomi Klein a suivi les événements qui se sont enchaînés, depuis la conférence de Seattle (1999) jusqu'aux événements tragiques du 11 septembre 2001. Au fil d'une soixantaine de textes percutants (articles du Globe and Mail, conférences, débats) qui composent une sorte de journal de militante, Naomi Klein poursuit, en l'élargissant, son entreprise de dénonciation des grandes sociétés et des institutions internationales. Avec humour et rigueur, elle fait la radioscopie de la société actuelle : ses injustices, ses impostures, mais aussi ses espoirs et ses promesses, qu'incarnent tout particulièrement les militants et les citoyens ordinaires qui s'élèvent contre les abus.
** The New York Times and Sunday Times Bestseller** 'An ordinary person's guide to hope. Read this book' Arundhati Roy 'As accessible as it is brilliant' Owen Jones 'An absolute must-read. This book is inspiring and energy-giving. Like a little sun' Emma Thompson Naomi Klein - award-winning journalist, bestselling author of No Logo , The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything , scourge of brand bullies and corporate liars - gives us the toolkit we need to survive our surreal, shocking age. 'This is a look at how we arrived at this surreal political moment, how to keep it from getting a lot worse, and how, if we keep our heads, we can flip the script.' Remember when love was supposed to Trump hate? Remember when the oil companies and bankers seemed to be running scared? What the hell happened? And what can we do about it? Naomi Klein shows us how we got here, and how we can make things better. No Is Not Enough reveals, among other things, that the disorientation we're feeling is deliberate. That around the world, shock political tactics are being used to generate crisis after crisis, designed to force through policies that will destroy people, the environment, the economy and our security. That extremism isn't a freak event - it's a toxic cocktail of our times. From how to trash the Trump megabrand to the art of reclaiming the populist argument, Naomi Klein shows all of us how we can break the spell and win the world we need. Don't let them get away with it. 'Who better than Naomi to make sense of this madness, and help us find a way out? A top-of-the-stack must read' Michael Stipe 'Naomi Klein's new book incites us brilliantly to interweave our No with a programmatic Yes. A manual for emancipation' Yanis Varoufakis 'Magnificent ... a courageous coruscating counterspell' Junot Diaz
