Republicans are right about climate change; in that the environmental crisis cannot be solved without risking the capitalist free trade market. However, in This Changes Everything Naomi Klein illustrates that the importance to create real change for the environment has never been more important than right now. The advantageous effect free market capitalism has had for fossil fuel companies has caused a huge problem in a negative direction towards uncontrollable climate change issues in the atmosphere. The move away from fossil fuels, shifting toward green energies, is not only environmentally sound, but also economically beneficial. However, the fossil fuel industry uses their economic power to keep their dominance atop the power and fuel industry, doing this by attempting to assure that no laws are passed that could harm their operation. While government has the power to force regulation on industry, they will only do so if there is large public demonstration in a demand for change. This Changes Everything dives into the past, present and future problems of the capitalist government for the …show more content…
The era of the neoliberal movement, the political movement that encourages free market and trade to grow the economy, is the key problem to why fossil fuel companies are able to stay prosperous. Naomi calls the actions fossil companies make “extractivism,” an idea to simply taking what they can from the earth. Klein says “Extractivism is also directly connected to the notion of sacrifice zones— places that, to their extractors, somehow don’t count and therefore can be poisoned, drained, or destroyed, for the supposed greater good of economic progress.” ^1 (169) Fossil fuel companies create local pollution sacrifice zones surrounding the mines and facilities, but included in the sacrifice is the carbon they emit into the