time frames and, 127–128
(see also Climate agenda)
Climate of Corruption (Bell), 71
ClimateDepot, 71
Clinton, Hillary, 191
Clothing, 126, 131–132
CNN, 75n, 94
Coal, 6, 27, 37, 80, 112, 130, 156, 195, 196, 198, 199, 203–205, 264, 280, 285
Cobalt, 126
Cohen, Leonard, 182
Collective action, 91, 92, 120, 181
College of the Atlantic commencement address, 2015 (Klein), 129–136
Colombia, 66
Colonialism, 20–21, 159, 194, 196, 235
Columbia River, 207
Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy, 80n
Communism, 79
Communitarian worldview, 92
Competitive Enterprise Institute, 71
Conflict Shoreline, The (Weizman), 161
Conservative Party (Canada), 175, 182
Conservative Party (UK), 238n
Consumerism/consumption, 81, 85–88, 90, 121–122, 126, 264
Cook, James, 20, 195, 196
Copenhagen summit of 2, 22, 73
Coral reefs, 18, 25, 154, 194–196
Corporate tax rate, 283
Cox, Liam, 168
Cox, Stan, 75
Crabapple, Molly, 272–273, 277–278
Crenshaw, Kimberlé, 194
Crops, 8, 25, 83
Culberson, John, 64
Cultural cognition, 92–93
Cultural values, 102–103
Curry, John, 63
Cyclone force, 41
Cyclone Idai, 4, 49
Cyclone Kenneth, 4
Dakota Access Pipeline, 189
Daly, Herman, 86
Daraa, Syria, 161
Day, Ryan, 216
de Kooning, Willem de, 276
Death of Nature, The (Merchant), 59
DeBeers diamond mine, Canada, 157
Decarbonization, 30, 31
DeChristopher, Tim, 101
Deepwater drilling, 19, 160
Deepwater Horizon offshore rig, 54, 60–65, 67, 68, 125, 229
Deforestation, 156, 204, 227n, 228n
Delhi, India, 3
Delingpole, James, 78
Democratic Party (US), 22, 30, 31, 51, 74, 75n, 76, 252, 260, 275
Democratic Republic of the Congo, 126
Democratic socialism, 251
Democratic Socialists of America, 250
Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), Ireland, 238n
Denmark, 251
Deregulation, 85, 192, 248, 249
Desertification, 150
DiEM25, 31
Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, 173
Doctrine of Christian Discovery, 50, 158
Doughnut Economics (Raworth), 265
Drone strikes, 162
Drought, 2, 25, 49, 95, 97, 106n, 108, 124, 161, 162, 165
Dunlap, Riley, 95
Düsseldorf, Germany, 13
Dust Bowl, 22, 26, 277
Dutch Virgin Islands, 241–242
Earthquakes, 19
Economic planning, 81, 82–83, 90
Economics and Political Economy Research Department, University of Massachusetts–Amherst, 282
Economopoulos, Nikos, 220n
Ecuador, 90, 265
Edward W. Said London Lecture, 2016 (Klein), 149–168
Egalitarian worldview, 92
Eisenberg, Carolyn, 263
El Niño, 221
El Salvador, 49
Electric vehicle, 38
Ellison, Ralph, 276
Emanuel African Methodist Church, Charleston, South Carolina, 42
Emission reduction, 8, 9, 24, 28, 30, 33, 45–46, 78, 82, 84–86, 107, 113–117, 130, 150, 155, 177, 178, 183, 246, 249, 251, 260, 264, 266, 271, 281, 282, 285
Encalade, Byron, 63
End of the Myth, The: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America (Grandin), 186n
Endlessness, story of, 185–190
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 55, 96
Environmental Research Letters, 5
ETC Group, 107
Ethnic conflicts, 125
European Convention on Women’s Rights, 31
European Spring, 31, 283
European Transport Workers Federation, 282
European Union, 11, 12, 47
Evans, Walker, 277
Extinction, 1–2, 5, 52, 119
Extinction Rebellion, 21–22
Exxon Valdez oil spill, 57
ExxonMobil, 88, 93, 94, 264
Facebook, 43, 64
Family leave, 268
Famine, 96, 97
Fareha, Nosrat, 4
Farming, 7, 83, 85, 97, 100
Feedback loops, 223–224
FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency), 49, 256
Fiji, 154
Financial crash of 2008, 115, 235
Financial Oversight and Management Board (Puerto Rico), 254
Fishing, 55–57, 64, 65, 68, 187–188
Flannigan, Mike, 221
Floods, 3, 125, 166, 168, 207, 216, 233
Florida State University, 69
Forest management, 221, 228n
Forests, 78, 97, 188
Forst, Michael, 203
Fort McMurray, Alberta, 157, 215, 228
Fossil fuels, 2, 7, 8, 14, 17, 19, 22, 37–39, 51–52, 59, 73, 74n, 76, 78, 82–84, 88–89, 94, 134, 156, 158, 160, 161, 165, 166, 196, 199, 202–203, 241, 244, 247, 251, 260–261, 280, 283–286, 289
Fracking operations, 19, 37, 101, 118, 134, 160, 165, 183, 184, 188, 198, 199, 240
France, 184, 287, 289
Francis, Pope, 20, 144
“Laudato sì” by, 137–143, 145–147
Francis of Assisi, Saint, 140–141, 144
Free-market climate solutions, 97, 287, 289, 291
Free trade, 84, 85, 94, 96, 98, 192, 249
Free Trade Agreement, 248
Freedom of Information Act, 71
Freilla, Omar, 102
French Caribbean, 242
Friedman, Thomas, 86, 288
Fur trade, 187, 188, 189
Garza, Alicia, 131
Gates, Bill, 106
Gaza, 154, 162
Genetically modified seeds, 97
Genocide, 159n, 201
Geoengineering, 67, 100, 105–109, 116, 230
Geophysical Research Letters, 108
George, Russ, 105–106, 109
Germany, 35, 37, 130, 180, 184, 234, 263
Gillibrand, Kirsten, 30
Gingrich, Newt, 61–62, 74
Glacier National Park, 208, 233
Glaciers, 8, 28
Global climate models, 110, 117
Global economic crisis, 99
Global warming, 14, 19, 23–24, 70, 72, 74n, 75, 78, 79, 89, 92, 94, 96, 100, 105, 115, 116, 155, 165, 183, 198, 199, 249, 282, 290
Global Witness, 204
Grandin, Greg, 186n
Grantham, Jeremy, 112
Gray, Lucy, 41
Great Barrier Reef, 4, 20, 194–196
Great Depression, 22, 26, 34, 37, 237, 262, 276
Great Transition, 178
Greece, 220n
Green colonialism, 151
Green New Deal, 17, 26–31, 40, 46, 53, 152, 178, 251–252, 259–261, 263–268, 270–275, 277–280
for Europe, 31
Leap Manifesto, 16, 174–183, 185, 187, 211
nine reasons for, 281–291
Ocasio-Cortez/Markey resolution, 30, 36, 259, 263
Green Workers Cooperatives, Bronx, New York, 102
Greenhouse gas emissions, 5, 84, 114–115, 126, 133, 181, 223, 270, 283
Greenland, 112, 118, 120, 220, 224, 243
Greenpeace, 94, 118, 135–136, 182
Grégoire, Sophie, 227
Grenfell Tower catastrophe (UK), 236
Gualcarque River hydroelectric dam, Honduras, 159
Guatemala, 5, 49
Guillen, Rosalinda, 214
Gujaaw, 182
Gulf of Mexico, 20, 54–68, 89, 125
Gulf of Mexico Regional Oil Spill Response Plan (BP), 57
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, 69
Gulf War oil spill, 57
Gun ownership, 15
Haida Gwaii, 105
Hamilton, Clive, 117
Hansen, James, 77, 112, 154, 246
Harden, Monique, 65
Harris, Kamala, 30
Harris poll (2007), 73
Hatfield, Henry D., 275
Hayward, Tony, 55, 58, 60, 62, 63, 68, 125
Hazardous waste sites, 269
Health care, 26, 30, 267–268
Heartland Institute, 77, 80, 87–89, 91, 93–94, 98
Sixth International Conference on Climate Change, 70–73, 78, 79, 81, 83, 91–92, 94, 95, 103
Hebron, 154
Henry, James S., 284
Heritage Foundation, 91
HMS Endeavour, 195, 196
Homeland Security, U.S. Department of, 49
Honduras, 49, 204
Hopkins, Harry, 276
Hopkins, Katie, 164
Horner, Chris, 71, 72, 79
Hudson’s Bay Company, 187
Hughes, Terry, 195n
Human rights, 35, 152, 203, 204
Huntsman, John, 76
Hurricane Florence, 256
Hurricane Haiyan, 256
Hurricane Harvey, 69, 207, 215, 219, 233
Hurricane Irma, 207, 215, 233, 234, 256
Hurricane Katrina, 16, 56, 57, 165, 215, 235, 256, 266
Hurricane Maria, 3, 234, 253–258, 266, 267
Hurricanes, 5, 125
Hurston, Zora Neale, 276
Hussain, Murtaza, 48–49
Huxley, Thomas, 188
Hydro power, 39, 80n
Ice cores, 110, 117
Ice sheets, 107
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), 48
Immigration policies, 47–48, 97, 164n, 181, 202
Indigenous peoples, 19, 30, 36, 39, 66–67, 90, 111, 118, 143, 151–152, 157–158, 159n, 170, 176, 180, 182, 188–189, 200, 204, 205, 216, 220, 224–226, 250, 251, 265, 266, 291
Indignados (Spain), 239
Indonesia, 131, 133, 216
Industrial agriculture, 156
Industrial Revolution, 195, 242, 270
Innis, Harold, 187–188
Intellectual Ventures, 106
Intercept, The, 277
International Alliance of Catholic Development Agencies, 142
International Fisheries Exhibition, 188
International Monetary Fund (IMF), 49, 90
International Organization for Migration, 163n
International trade, 81, 84–85
Inuit people, 126
Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Crusade Against the New Deal (Phillips-Fein), 275
Iran, 163
Iraq, 21, 161, 162, 167, 172, 197
Iron and Earth, 200
Israel, 150–152, 161, 163
Italian pensioners, 113
Jackson, Tim, 86, 87
Jackson, Wes, 83
Jevons paradox, 86
Jewish National Fund, 151
Job creation, 26, 281–282, 290
Job guarantee, 268–269
John Paul II, Pope, 141
Johnson, Murrawah, 202
Jubilee Debt Campaign, 49
Jungle, The (Sinclair), 262
Kahan, Dan, 92–93, 100
Kamloops, Canada, 210
Keeter, Scott, 73–74
Kerry, John, 73
Keynes, John Maynard, 90
Keystone XL Pipeline, 76, 101–102, 112, 170
Kim Jong-un, 230
Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline, 225–227, 233
King, Llewellyn, 64
Kirschenmann, Fred, 83
Klaus, Vaclav, 79
Koch brothers, 75, 93, 94
Koch Industries, 289
Koonin, Steven, 67
Kretzmann, Stephen, 52
Kyoto Protocol, 85
La Paz, Bolivia, 28
Labor unions, 132, 133
Labour Party Conference, Brighton, England (2017), Klein speech at, 234–242
Labour Party (UK), 32
Lafontaine-Baldwin Lecture, 2016 (Klein), 169–190
Land Institute, Salina, Kansas, 83
Lange, Dorothea, 277
“Laudato sì” (Pope Francis), 137–143, 145–147
Le Guin, Ursula K., 274
Leap Manifesto, 16, 174–183 185, 187, 211
Lenin, Vladimir, 144
Lennox, Zoe Buckley, 135–136
Lewis, Avi, 211, 222, 231, 278
Liberal Party, Canada, 175, 182
Libya, 162
Coast Guard, 164n
migrant camps, 47
Little Ice Age, 159n
Lodgepole Complex fire, 219
Logging, 227n
Lombardi, Federico, 138
Long, Huey, 262
Los Angeles, California, 212, 219, 233
Louisiana, 54–56, 63, 64, 97, 154, 188
Louisiana State University, 68
Macron, Emmanuel, 7, 287, 289
Maher, Neil, 34
Mali, 162
Manders, Nelke, 164n
Manifest Destiny, 158
Manuel, Arthur, 224–225
Manus island, 163
Market crash of 1929, 115
Markey, Ed, 30, 36, 60, 259, 263
Marshall Islands, 16, 154
Marshall Plan, 28, 35, 37, 263
Marshall Plan for Planet Earth, 178
Martel, Yann, 182
Marvel, Kate, 39
Maslin, Mark, 159n
Mass shootings, 42–44
May, Theresa, 237
McConnell, Mitch, 62
McCright, Aaron, 95
McDonagh, Seán, 143–145, 147
McKibben, Bill, 108, 118
Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), 164n
Medicare for All, 267
Mediterranean Sea, 163
Merchant, Carolyn, 59, 66
Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, A (video), 272, 277–279
Methane, 224
#MeToo movement, 266
Mexican Americans, 36
Mexico, 162, 186n
Michaels, Patrick, 71, 94, 95, 96
Midterm elections of 2018 (US), 22, 27
Migrants and refugees, 162–165, 168, 181, 234, 242
Migration patterns, 119
Military (US), 35, 90, 284
Miranda, Moema de, 144–147
Mississippi River Delta, 56
Mohr, Jean, 149
Momentum movement, 238
Monbiot, George, 265
Monocultures, 83
Monsoons, 105, 108, 230
Montana, 76, 218, 219
Morano, Marc, 71–73
Morrison, Dawn, 225
Morrison, Scott, 6
Morton, Timothy, 126
Mosaddegh, Mohammad, 160–161
Mossville, Louisiana, 64
Mountaintop removal coal mining, 156
Mozambique, 4, 49
Mulroney, Brian, 182
Munger Farms, 214–215
Murkowski, Lisa, 61
NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), 248
Naot, Yehudit, 152
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), 110, 112
National Book Foundation Medal, 274
National Health Service (UK), 237
National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), 68
National Wildlife Federation (NWF), 68
Nationalization, 89, 90, 238
Nature, 112, 183
Nature Climate Change, 116, 150
Nature’s New Deal (Maher), 34
Nauru island, 163, 164
Navajo Indians, 126
Navarro Llanos, Angélica, 28
Negev Desert, 151
Neo-Nazi right, 93
Neoliberalism, 249, 251, 252, 269
Net-zero carbon emissions, 24, 30, 86, 285
Neves, Katja, 67
New Consensus, 283
New Deal, 22, 26, 31, 33–34, 36, 37, 39, 237, 262, 263, 266, 271, 273–276, 286
New Delhi, India, 212
New Democratic Party (NDP), Canada, 32, 175, 182
New Orleans, Louisiana, 97
New Scientist, 195n
New York City, New York, 2–3, 130
New York Times, 275, 288
New York Times Magazine, 243–250
New Zealand
Al Noor Mosque massacre in, 42–45, 48–49
offshore oil drilling and, 38
School Strike for Climate in, 40–41
Newfoundland, 185, 188
Niger Delta, 156, 159
Nigeria, 207, 233
Nilch’i (Holy Wind), 126
Nixon, Rob, 150
No Logo (Klein), 32, 126, 131, 133
Nonviolent direct action, 21
North Carolina, 257
North Dakota, 204–205, 218
Northern Gas Pipeline, Australia, 198
Norway, 38
summer camp massacre, 42, 46
Nuclear power, 100, 112, 264, 280
Nuclear weapons, 112
Obama, Barack, 19, 55–56, 62, 64, 71, 73
O’Brien, Matt, 55
Obsessive-compulsive disorder, 9
Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria, 29–30, 36, 259, 263, 272, 273, 277–279, 282–283
Occidental Petroleum, 66
Occupy Wall Street, 77, 101, 102, 111, 239
Ocean acidification, 107, 110, 117
Ocean fertilization, 105, 109
Ocean warming, 5
Offshore oil drilling, 38, 199
Ogimaa Mikana Project, 173
Oil Change International, 52, 199
Oil industry, 88–89, 160–161
Oil pipelines, 23, 27, 30, 76, 101–102, 112, 134, 170, 183, 189, 205, 225–227, 233, 266
Oil prices, 174–175, 188
Oil spills, 20, 54–58, 60–65, 68–69, 125, 126, 156
Open-pit mining, 156
Orientalism, 158, 160
Orientalism (Said), 155
Oslo, Norway, 42
Oxford University, 134
Pacific Islanders, 41, 154, 164
Pacific Northwest, 3, 209, 231
Pakistan, 162
Palestinians, 149–153, 162
Palin, Sarah, 62, 64
Paradise, California, 223
Parenti, Christian, 283
Paris Climate Agreement, 7, 22, 136, 155, 165, 183, 184, 198, 230
Parkland, Florida school shooting, 15
Parks, Gordon, 277
Patriarchy, 159
Pay equity, 268
Pelosi, Nancy, 22, 23, 29, 74
Pennsylvania gas fields, 76
People’s Climate March (2014), 22
Perennial crops, 83
Perry, Rick, 72, 75–76
Persian Gulf, 57
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, 73–74, 75n
Philippines, 16, 131, 143, 204, 257
Phillips-Fein, Kim, 275