It is pretty obvious that 2020 is not our year, with the pandemic our country is facing, it seems our prioritizes have been scattered. However, it is still important to recognize the issue of climate change, and the repercussions it presents if not handled properly. People must realize that this issue does not only affect our generation, climate change will be a utmost problem for future generations to come. Not only having the potential to devastate the economy, but also our culture and our society as a whole.

Naomi Klein captures the problem of climate change exceptionally well, in her book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, more specifically the irony that surrounds the issue. Klein makes several points throughout her book trying to emphasize that some problems that big businesses encountered are indirectly self inflicted, due to their actions leading to CO2 emissions. For instance, the introductory airplane incident, where a plane had sunk into the pavement due to “the profligate burning of fossil fuels, the very thing that US Airways was bound and determined to do despite the inconvenience presented by a melting tarmac.”.

Klein does not only find faults within big businesses, she also want the reader to understand the evidence suggesting that politics can also be a source of blame for climate change. As stated by Klein ” No matter how many times we have been disappointed by the failings of our politicians, this realization still comes as a blow.”, Klein argues that politicians have continuously neglected the matter, and only those who recognize the negligence are annoyed, when it should be the whole nation.  Klein later claims “we need not be spectators in all this: politicians aren’t the only ones with the power to declare a crisis. Mass movements of regular people can declare one too.”, in an effort to push for initiative. We shouldn’t have to wait until climate change is knocking on our front doorstep, rather the general public should address the issue to a government too scared to confront it.