Naomi Klein, ON FIRE: The Burning Case for a GREEN NEW DEAL, Penguin, Allen Lane, 2019.
Bill McKibben, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?, Wildfire, 2019.
October/November 2019
Klein and McKibben are two of the most prominent and passionate climate warriors today. They have both published books this year. Klein’s On Fire is both an urgent warning and a call to act. McKibben’s Falter is a call to act but also an elegiac warning that we may not achieve the goal. But he also insists this is no time for either simple hope or hopeless despair but for out-and-out engagement.