Analysis Of Bad Timing By Naomi Klein

The antidote for climate change
Everyone knows that there are four seasons in a year, but have we ever imagined that there will be only three of them left in the future, and our future generations may not be able to experience the bone-chilling weather in winter? Winter will be gone in the future on account of the impacts of climate change. Climate change is a disastrous problem for mankind as Naomi Klein stresses in her book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. Climate Change, which is translated into 25 languages with two editions. Klein is a well-known author and Canadian social activist. It was a New York Times non-fiction bestseller in 2014. Klein titled part one of her book “Bad Timing” by the reason for the rise of capitalism and neoliberalism, people’s lifestyle and corporate production, they are the obstacles for us to confront climate change; part two discusses how people depend on other groups to save them from climate change, which is a “Magical Thinking” that will lead us to be a …show more content…
Klein emphasizes that “…there is an obvious and compelling relationship between public ownership and the ability of communities to get off dirty energy” (99). The “big government” should carry out the long-term government planning to shift the energy infrastructure to renewables by transforming the energy system to publicly run. Klein also states that “But truly rising to the climate change…will require that we dig even deeper into our past, and move into some distinctly uncharted political territory” (160). A larger public sector investment which is more compatible, with renewable energy is needed for emission reduction and achieve decentralization of energy production, which emphasizes buying and hiring local can also alleviate the problem of climate change. The development of renewable energy can reduce the extractive activities as