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by Naomi Klein


  Pied flycatchers, 120

  Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, 54–56, 63

  Polar ice melt, 154

  Pollock, Jackson, 276

  Polycultures, 83

  Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, 142

  Port Augusta, Australia, 4

  Portugal, 220

  Presidential elections (US)

  1936, 275

  2004, 73

  2012, 76

  2016, 191, 239

  2020, 31, 260

  Pressley, Ayanna, 29, 36

  Prince Edward Island, Canada, 65

  Prison labor, 215

  Privatization, 85, 192, 248

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 85

  Prosperity Without Growth (Jackson), 87

  Public infrastructure, 81–82, 90

  Public Works Administration, 34

  Puerto Rico, 3, 234–235, 253–258, 267–278

  Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA), 254

  Quaternary Science Reviews, 159n

  Quebec, Canada, 185

  Quebec City mosque, 42

  Rain forests, 4

  Rainfall, 161, 213

  Rainforest Action Network, The, 101

  Ramirez, Debra, 64

  Raworth, Kate, 265

  Reagan, Ronald, 40

  Realism, new conception of, 81

  Recycling, 122, 123n

  Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York, 134–135

  Reddit, 43

  Religion News Service, 139

  Renewable energy, 22, 80, 81, 84, 89, 102, 130, 160, 176, 179, 199, 201, 255, 266, 281, 284

  Repair, concept of, 269–270

  Reparations, 46

  Republican Party (US), 61–62, 74–76, 280, 290

  Resource sharing, 46, 53

  Respiratory illnesses, 156

  Rich, Nathaniel, 243–250

  Rinehart, Steve, 60

  Robinson, Cedric, 19–20

  Robinson, Mary, 142, 146

  Rockefeller family, 134

  Rocky Mountain shale, 62

  Rocky Mountains, 218

  Rogers, Sandra, 3

  Romney, Mitt, 76

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 22, 26, 31, 33, 262, 273–276, 279, 286, 290

  Ross, Russell Myers, 226

  Rothschild, Richard, 70, 72

  Roy, Arundhati, 197

  Ruach (rushing-spirit), 126

  Sacrifice zones, 156–158, 160

  Safe Third Country Agreement, 48

  Said, Edward, 149–150, 152–155, 160, 167–168

  Salish Sea, 212

  Salmon, 18

  Salvini, Matteo, 48

  San Francisco, California, 3

  Sancton, Thomas, 246–247

  Sanders, Bernie, 30, 239, 260

  Sao Paulo, Brazil, 212

  Saro-Wiwa, 156

  Scaife, Richard Mellon, 94

  Scamell, Rosie, 138–139

  Scheiderman, Jill, 58

  Schmitt, Harrison, 71

  School Strikes for Climate, 2, 267

  New Zealand, 40–41

  Schurman, Jason, 228–229

  Scotland, 22

  Sea level rise, 25, 41, 46, 150, 154, 164, 224

  Secwepemc people, 224–225, 233

  Shell Oil, 156, 218, 264

  Arctic drilling rig, 135–136

  Shiva, Vandana, 196, 197

  Shock doctrine, 98, 235, 236

  Shock Doctrine, The (Klein), 98

  Siberia, 220

  Sila, 126

  Silva Ibarra, Honesto, 214

  Sinclair, Upton, 262

  Slavery, 50, 187, 196, 201

  Smoke, wildfire, 3, 5, 208–215, 218, 219, 222, 223, 229, 231–233

  Socialism, 35, 79–80, 263, 290

  Soil erosion, 83

  Solar eclipse, 232

  Solar power, 16–17, 39, 80n, 160, 205–206, 261, 281

  Solar radiation management, 230–231

  Solomon Islands, 2

  Somalia, 162, 163

  Songbird species, 119–120

  Soon, Willie, 94

  Sopoaga, Enele, 142

  South Africa, 220

  South African workers, 215–216

  South Carolina, 257

  South Sudan, 16

  South Waziristan, 162

  Soviet Union, collapse of, 37, 115, 248, 251, 263

  Speth, Gus, 86

  Stagflation, 86

  Stalinists, 93

  Standing Rock Sioux, 30, 189, 205

  Stanford University, 134

  Stanton, Ed, 55

  State, U.S. Department of, 102

  Steinbeck, John, 276

  Steiner, Rick, 63

  Steinmetz, George, 243

  Stern, Nicholas, 115

  Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, 98

  Stockholm International Peace Institute, 284

  Stone, Ed, 110

  “StratoShield,” 106–107

  Student strikes, 1–4, 6–7, 13, 21, 25, 40–42, 44, 52

  Sulfur dioxide, 230

  Sumas, Washington, 214

  Suncor, 218

  Sunrise Movement, 22, 23, 27, 29, 51, 267, 271, 278

  Sunshine Coast, British Columbia, 104, 208–213, 217, 222–223, 229–231

  Super Typhoon Mangkhut, 256

  Superstorm Sandy, 3, 134–135, 215, 256, 266

  Sutherland, Mia, 41–42, 44

  Sweden, 8–11, 251

  Sydney Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, 2016 (Klein), 191–206

  Syria, 5, 161

  Tar sands extraction, 19, 76–77, 118, 156–157, 159, 160, 170, 188, 200, 228

  Taseko Mines, 226

  Tasmania, 4

  Tax Justice Network (UK), 284

  Temperatures, 6, 72, 76, 78, 95, 97, 113–114, 150, 165, 183, 198, 209, 220, 221, 224, 260

  Temporary farmworkers, 214–215

  Tennessee Valley Authority, 34

  Terra nullius, 50, 158

  Texas, 188

  Thatcher, Margaret, 249, 291

  This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (Klein), 28, 249

  Thomas, Jim, 107

  350.org, 22, 102

  Thunberg, Greta, 7–13, 15–16, 24, 39, 44, 53, 284–285

  Tlaib, Rashida, 29, 288

  Tobacco companies, 89, 245

  TransCanada, 218

  Transition Town movement, 82

  Tree of Life synagogue, Pittsburgh, 42

  Tree planting, 26, 39, 150–151

  Trenberth, Kevin, 106n

  Trudeau, Justin, 7, 19, 48, 158, 183, 224, 226–227

  Trudeau, Pierre, 171

  Trumbull, Malcolm, 163–164, 198

  Trump, Donald, 6, 20, 48, 49, 162–163, 170n, 186n, 191–193, 197, 198, 227, 230, 235–236, 242, 252, 254, 256–257, 259–260

  Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Canada, 157, 189

  Tsilhqot’in First Nation, 226

  Turkson, Peter Kodwo Appiah, 142, 143

  Tutu, Desmond, 197

  Tuvalu, 142, 154

  Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, 113

  Unemployment insurance, 262

  Union of Concerned Scientists, 35

  United Arab Emirates, 184

  United Kingdom, 18, 19, 22, 32, 34–35, 113–115, 117, 160, 166, 168, 234–242

  United Nations climate conferences, 11, 16, 22, 89, 107

  United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 158

  United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 21

  United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 23–25, 27, 28, 30, 31, 33, 37, 138, 155, 246, 260, 282

  United Nations Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, 5

  United Nations World Meteorological Organization, 23

  United States Energy and Employment Report (USEER), 281

  United States House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, 106<
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  Uruguay, 251

  U’wa people, 66

  van Lonn, Hendrik Willem, 276

  Vancouver, Canada, 209–210

  Vancouver Island, 212, 227

  Vanity Fair, 76

  Vanuata island, 2

  Varoufakis, Yanic, 254

  Vatican, 20, 137–139, 145, 147–148

  Venezuela, 251

  Victor, Peter, 86

  Vietnam War, 171, 172

  Villaseñor, Alexandria, 7

  Walcott, Rinaldo, 193–194

  Wales, 22

  Walsh, Rodolfo, 253

  Warren, Elizabeth, 30, 260

  Wartime mobilizations, 34–35

  Washington State, 219, 233

  Waterkeeper Alliance, 65

  Wathen, John, 65

  Watson, Robert, 5

  Wealth of Nations, The (Smith), 196

  Weizman, Eyal, 161–162

  Werner, Brad, 110–113, 118

  West Bank, 152, 162

  West Virginia, 188

  Wetlands, 39

  Whales, 104, 105

  White supremacy, 42–45, 194, 259

  Wildfires, 3–5, 75, 125n, 207–216, 218–228, 232–233

  Wind power, 39, 80n, 160, 281

  Women’s Marches, 266

  Workers’ Compact (Europe), 31

  Works Progress Administration, 34, 276

  World Bank, 45, 90

  World Conference on the Changing Atmosphere in Toronto (1988), 246

  World Economic Summit, Davos, 11, 12

  World Trade Organization, 85

  World War II, 34–35, 237

  Wyoming coalfields, 76

  Yale University

  Cultural Cognition Project, 92

  Program on Climate Change Communication, 74n

  Yemen, 162

  York University, 86

  Young, Neil, 182

  YouTube, 43

  Zinke, Ryan, 227n, 228n

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