# Quote — Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything

> I have never said that we need to “slay,” “ditch” or “dismantle” capitalism in order to fight climate change. And I most certainly didn’t say we need to do so first. Indeed I say the opposite, very early on in the book, precisely because it would be so dangerous to make such a purist claim. (No, We Don’t Need to Ditch/Slay/Kill Capitalism Before We Can Fight Climate Change. But We Sure As Hell Need To Challenge It by Naomi Klein) p. 25

- Author: [Naomi Klein](https://www.leafyquotes.com/naomi-klein.md)
- Book: [This Changes Everything](https://www.leafyquotes.com/naomi-klein/this-changes-everything.md)
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## More from this book

> In the hot and stormy future we have already made inevitable through our past emissions, an unshakable belief in the equal rights of all people and a capacity for deep compassion will be the only things standing between civilization and barbarism. p. 462

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> This sense of moral clarity, after so many decades of chummy green partnerships, is the real shock for the extractive industries. p.336

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> With many of the biggest pools of untapped carbon on lands controlled by some of the poorest people on the planet, and with emissions rising most rapidly in what were, until recently, some of the poorest parts of the world, there is simply no credible way forward that does not involve redressing the real roots of poverty. p.418

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