This kind of defensive reasoning helps explain the rise of emotional intensity that surrounds the climate… — Naomi Klein

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

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

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