On fire : the burning case for a green new deal For more than twenty years Naomi Klein has been the foremost chronicler of the economic war waged on both people and planet and an unapologetic champion of a sweeping environmental agenda with justice at its center. In lucid elegant dispatches from the frontlines of contemporary natural disaster she pens surging indispensable essays for a wide public: prescient advisories and dire warnings of what future awaits us if we refuse to act as well as hopeful glimpses of a far better future. On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal gathers for the first time more than a decade of her impassioned writing and pairs it with new material on the staggeringly high stakes of our immediate political and economic choices. These long form essays show Klein at her most prophetic and philosophical investigating the climate crisis not only as a profound political challenge but as a spiritual and imaginative one as well. Delving into topics ranging from the clash between ecological time and our culture of perpetual now to the soaring history of humans changing and evolving rapidly in the face of grave threats to rising white supremacy and fortressed borders as a form of climate barbarism this is a rousing call to action for a planet on the brink. With reports spanning from the ghostly Great Barrier Reef to the annual smoke choked skies of the Pacific Northwest to post hurricane Puerto Rico to a Vatican attempting an unprecedented ecological conversion Klein makes the case that we will rise to the existential challenge of climate change only if we are willing to transform the systems that produced this crisis. An expansive far ranging exploration that sees the battle for a greener world as indistinguishable from the fight for our lives On Fire captures the burning urgency of the climate crisis as well as the fiery energy of a rising political movement demanding a catalytic Green New Deal