Firstly, the WTO encourages more international trade which has meant a huge increase in fossil fuel burning container ships and lorries.Specifically Klein says there are three contradictions between the (neoliberal) goals of the WTO and what’s needed to control climate change. These neoliberal ideas lie at the heart of the World Trade Organisation, and many of its policies are incompatible with a sustainable future. lowering of income and corporate taxes, paid for with cuts to public spending.Klein argues that the three policy pillars of the neoliberal age (1989 – present day ) are each incompatible with many of the actions we must take to bring our emissions to safe levels and bring climate change under control. NB2 – I’ve changed the arty subtitles of the chapters so they are more meaningful to a mass audience.Ĭhapter Two – Hot Money: How Neoliberalism Accelerated Climate Change NB – I changed the order from the actual book because I think my order makes more sense! Chapter one alerts us to the strategies which neoliberals employ to deny climate change in order to prevent the collapse of their neoliberal world order and their fall from world power.Chapter five reminds us of the possible consequences of carrying on with the extractivist logic of the industrial era which underpins the neoliberal exploitation of the environment (chapter five).

Chapters three and four explore how governments have a crucial role to play in combating climate change (chapters three and four).Chapter two provides an overview of how globalised neoliberal policies helped to cause climate change (chapter two).The focus of this book is on the causes of climate change, some potential solutions, and the dangers of carrying on with ‘business as usual’.

This changes everything naomi