Speaking from her home in British Columbia, Canada, Klein believes that social media makes it “infinitely harder” for young activists today than when she experienced the “incredibly overwhelming” success of No Logo in 1999. But that might wrongly imply that she is didactic or unwilling to learn from the young.
Given her accumulated wisdom over 25 years of activism, it is tempting to view Klein, 50, as a mother figure for the latest wave. Adults will find it a useful primer when our understanding of the importance of climate justice or the shortcomings of carbon capture and storage fails us. “I invite you to add your spark.”įor all that, How to Change Everything is not incendiary in tone but a calm, detailed exposition of the climate crisis and what we can do about it. “The more sparks the fire has, the brighter it will burn,” she writes.
Klein describes her books as “ammo for activists” and she tells her increasingly precocious readers that there are three fires in the world today: climate change, rising anger, fear and anti-immigrant sentiment, and young people.
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