# Quote — Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything

> … our economic system and our planetary system are now at war. Or, more accurately, our economy is at war with many forms of life on Earth, including human life. What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction in humanity’s use of resources; what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion. Only one of these sets of rules can be changed, and it’s not the laws of nature. p. 21

- 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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> 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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