On Fire
A comprehensive, 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. This book explains how bold climate action can be a blueprint for a just and thriving society. 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 the Vatican attempting an unprecedented “ecological conversion,” On Fire 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.
“Naomi Klein is the intellectual godmother of the Green New Deal —which just happens to be the most important idea in the world right now”
— Bill McKibben
“Naomi Klein’s work has always moved and guided me. She is the great chronicler of our age of climate emergency, an inspirer of generations.”
— Greta Thunberg, climate activist
"If I were a rich man, I’d buy 245 million copies of Naomi Klein’s 'On Fire' and hand-deliver them to every eligible voter in America. . . . Klein is a skilled writer."
— Jeff Goodell, The New York Times
"[In On Fire] Naomi Klein makes a keenly argued, well-researched and impassioned case. . . . [Y]ou need to read this book."
— David Grinspoon, The Washington Post
“A critically important thought-leader in these perilous times, a necessary voice as a courageous movement of movements rises from the ashes.”
— Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow
“Naomi is like a great doctor—she can diagnose problems nobody else sees.”
— Alfonso Cuarón, Academy Award-winning director of Roma
“Naomi Klein applies her fine, fierce and meticulous mind to the greatest, most urgent questions of our times. . . . I count her among the most inspirational political thinkers in the world today.”
— Arundhati Roy, Man Booker Prize-winng author of The God of Small Things
“Naomi Klein is a precious gift: every time I read her words, my heart leaps from sadness and anger to action. She takes us deep, down to the roots of what is wrong—and then up, up to a height from which we can see what must be done. Everything we love is at stake now: these writings are our best and brightest hope.”
— Emma Thompson
“The greatest theorist of climate change.”
— Amitav Ghosh, author of The Hungry Tide
"Masterful. . .What separates Klein from many other advocates for a Green New Deal is her balanced combination of idealism and politics-based realism. . .Another important addition to the literature on the most essential issue of our day.”
— Kirkus Reviews