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Wealth and power shape the climate emergency – the most important tool we have to defend ourselves is the facts | Naomi Klein

The corporate-financed backlash to calls for global climate progress has been greatly empowered by the Trump administration. It’s never been more critical to challenge the misinformation that could turn a crisis into a catastropheSupport the Guardian’s independent, fact-based journalism todayA little over a decade ago I published a book, This Changes Everything, which explored the reality of the climate crisis as a confrontation between capitalism and the planet. For a few years after the book came out, it seemed like we might just win a breakthrough. A cascade of large and militant mobilisations pressed the case for keeping warming below 1.5C as global calls for a green new deal grew louder and louder. Countries across the world announced long-term plans to reduce emissions and to hit net-zero targets; so did some of the largest corporations on the planet.And then well, we all know what happened. A corporate-financed backlash on all fronts. In the first 100 days of Trump’s second t...


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