MixedThe Globe and MailThis is the new environmentalism – one that focuses on systemic change rather than go-green lifestyle choices – and it has a powerful proponent in Naomi Klein. Her new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, has the potential to be the definitive account of our current moment ... This Changes Everything is a work of startling force, exhaustive reporting, and telling anecdote ... Klein\'s great gifts have always been synthesizing huge amounts of information and drawing connections between seemingly disparate issues; on those points, This Changes Everything is no different. Still, the book is not without its faults. Klein is not an especially elegant writer, and she frequently gets mired in repetitive platitudes, awkward syntax, left-wing cliché, and bumpy rhetorical landings. A larger problem is that it is never quite clear what she means when she refers to \'capitalism\' – as she does frequently, including in the subtitle of the book ... The broad strokes she advocates – community-managed power utilities, massive government investment in renewable energy, cheap and accessible public transit – may be radical by today\'s standards, and are probably a long way off. But they\'re hardly anti-capitalist as such – in fact, they sound a lot like a hypercharged European social democracy, albeit with ecology at its core.
