Naomi Klein's latest book, "This Changes Everything - Capitalism vs the Climate" explains how the dominant economic system is destroying the life support systems of humans and all other life on earth. Klein proposes that in order to prevent catastrophic climate change we need to fundamentally shift away from the existing materialist based capitalist system.
The 1970's and '80's were decades where human threats to planetary ecosystems were not only recognised but were acted upon, spurred by analysis such as the Club of Rome's "Limits to Growth" report and Rachel Carsons seminal warning on chemical abuse "Silent Spring." These led in turn to broad national and international recognition of human impacts on the environment.
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