Solving climate change may require transforming capitalism

Solving climate change isn't just a matter of new technologies or laws; it will require that we challenge the entire logic and structure of the deregulated capitalist economy.
That's according to author Naomi Klein, who released a new book this month called "This Changes Everything: Capitalism Versus the Climate."
“The book is about a clash between two logics: a logic of short-term growth and short-term profits above all else; and what we need to do to solve this climate crisis,” Klein says.
Klein, a best-selling author, social critic and climate activist, contends that global warming has largely been driven by globalization and unregulated free trade. For years, she says, the global economy has been expanding on a very particular model — a model based on removing barriers to investment and manufacturing.
“It's a very, very profitable model, but it's also a very high carbon model,” Klein says, “because there is a connection between cheap labor and cheap energy — and cheap energy tends