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This Changes Everything

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by Naomi Klein


  wind power, 16, 67, 70, 97, 102, 118, 122, 124, 127, 131–32, 147, 215, 237

  in combined-cycle plant, 129

  fracking’s negative impact on, 129, 144n

  large offshore, 131

  manufacturers in, 68

  private sector and, 100–101

  Wood, Lowell, 268n, 271, 280, 288

  Woolsey, R. James, 53

  Woolworth, 16

  workers, see labor; trade unions

  in Industrial Revolution, 171

  public sector, 157

  work hours, shorter, 93–94

  World Academy of Sciences, 257

  World Bank, 47–48, 59, 81, 152, 180, 219, 359

  austerity promoted by, 77

  on carbon tax, 114

  free market ideology and, 62

  new coal projects opposed by, 348–49

  on 2 degrees Celsius limit, 12–13

  World Conference Against Racism (2001), 414

  World Conference on the Changing Atmosphere, 55, 73–74

  World Economic Forum, 112

  World Future Council, 97

  World Health Organization, 351

  world markets, liberation of, 20–21

  World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, 444n

  World Resources Institute, 196, 226

  World Trade Organization (WTO), 5, 16, 19, 39, 76, 77, 80, 84

  green energy programs challenged by, 64–65, 68–73, 126

  worldview:

  communitarian, 36, 59, 182, 460, 461, 462, 466

  dominance-based, 36–37, 41, 44, 56–57, 59–60, 75, 177, 184, 186, 424, 462

  extractivist, see extractivism

  regenerative, 23, 25, 60–61, 182, 395, 396, 424, 442–48

  World War I, collective sacrifice in, 16, 115

  World War II:

  collective sacrifice in, 16–17, 115–16

  social programs in wake of, 10

  World Wildlife Fund, 84, 196, 264

  World Wind Energy Association, 132

  World Wrestling Entertainment, 212n

  Wretched of the Earth, The (Fanon), 459

  Wright, Malcolm, 290

  Wright, Wayne, 68

  Wyoming, 215, 320

  Xcel Energy, 98–99

  Xeni Gwet’in First Nation, 345

  Yale University, 36, 56

  Yanza, Luis, 291

  Yara, 135

  Yasuní-ITT initiative, 410

  Yasuní rainforest, 408–11

  Yergin, Daniel, 311

  Yoshitani, Miya, 155–56

  Young, Neil, 383–84

  Youngstown, Ohio, 329

  zero-carbon energy sources, 18, 128

  zero-carbon public services, 19–20

  zero-waste design, 16

  Zimbabwe, famine in, 272

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  This changes everything : capitalism vs. the climate / Naomi Klein.—First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

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  1. Environmental economics.  2. Environmental policy—Economic aspects.  3. Climatic changes—Economic aspects.  4. Global environmental change—Economic aspects.  5. Capitalism.  I. Title.

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