EWRT1A De Anza College This Changes Everything Book Journal This assignment covers Klein’s chapter 4, 5, and 6. For each chapter in Klein’s book, starting

EWRT1A De Anza College This Changes Everything Book Journal This assignment covers Klein’s chapter 4, 5, and 6.

For each chapter in Klein’s book, starting with the Introduction, you will complete TWO entries in the triple entry journal.

There are three steps:

1) In column 1 of the journal, take a sentence or two from the book, exactly as it is written in the text. This is called quoting. To figure out what to quote, it’s a good idea to read the whole chapter through with a highlighter. As you read, highlight the sentences you think matter. After you finish go back through these and pick out the highlighted sentences that are the most important of these. Mark these in the margin with a star and write a comment in the margin about why you selected it, why you think it is important, what idea does it provoke. After you select the quote, type it out in the correct quoting form (MLA format). Include the page number.

2) In column 2, simply restate in your own words what the quote says. You are not just changing a few words, though. You are rewriting the quote entirely in your own words. Do not add any opinion or analysis here. Use MLA format to show that you have paraphrased the author’s ideas.

3) Once you have selected a quote and you have paraphrased it, which means you understand the quote, now you need to comment on it. This goes in column 3. You need to write why the quote matters to you? What is the quote connected to? How does it relate to your life or the world? How is it connected to the paper you are working on? What other texts that we have read in class or that you have read out of class (from another class) does it connect to?

here is an sample of the journal format. Surname 1
Student Name:
Professor Name:
Course Name &Number:
Date:
Journal entry on climate change
Chapter 1
Quote
“It’s nearly
impossible to
convince people to
abandon their core
worldview.”2
Interpretation
It is not easy to change
the views that people
hold closely in regard
to their comprehension
of the world (2).
Application
This quote is critical to me as it addresses the
issue of change and the challenge of
implementing change more so when regarding
issues that are personal to an individual. The
quote elaborates that worldviews that are core
or central to a person cannot be easily changed
that explains many people’s resistance to
change. This quote is connected to the paper I
am working on regarding climate change. Based
on the quote, addressing the issue of climate
change will not be easy as in many cases; it will
involve altering values and perceptions
important to individuals. This quote can be
applied on my personal need on the importance
of been receptive to different views even in
cases where they contradict my own. This quote
is applicable to other domains such as
education, government transparency, and
religious conflicts.
Second quote
The deniers remain
strong because “…
they are protecting
powerful political
and economic
interests …”
Interpretation
There is prominent
resistance as the
people involved seek
to safeguard their
individualized
political and economic
interests (44).
Application
This quote is matters because it elaborates why
there exists resistance or deniers to matters that
are proven mostly scientifically. This quote is
connected to my paper on climate change as
regardless of the scientific evidence that has
been provided to support climate change, many
powerful people continue to deny it not because
it doesn’t exist but because they are looking out
for their economic and political interests. This
quote can also be connected to other matters
such as poverty and economic inequalities in the
society as despite the presence of proposals
provided to address these issues; none of them
Surname 2
has been implemented as this will contradict
economic and political interests of the top 10%
members of the society.
Chapter 2
First quote
Thus, telling people
that they can’t shop
as much as they
want to because the
planet’s support
systems are
overburdened can be
understood as a kind
of attack, akin to
telling them that they
cannot truly be
themselves. …”
Interpretation
Attempting to get
people to alter their
shopping patterns
because they
overburden the
planet’s support
systems is perceived
by many people to be
an attack on
themselves as they
have been brought up
to believe that
shopping is part of
who they are (4).
Application
This quote explains not only why climate
change is on the rise but also the driving factor
of climate change, consumerism. Since,
consumerism and capitalism have become part
of modern society, convincing people to shop
less is a deviation of who people have grown to
become. Hence, this quote is connected to
consumerism and capitalism which are the
leading causes of climate change. Further, the
quote demonstrates the challenges that
negatively affect the implementation of the
proposed solutions. This quote is also connected
to how consumerism and capitalism affect other
aspects of our lives such inequality in the
society since consumerism is most dominant
among the wealthy. On a personal level, the
quote elaborates why I need to change my
lifestyles from consumerism to shopping
responsibly.
Second quote
What’s important is
to break out of the
mindset that climate
change can be
tackled by individual
[sic] action.
Interpretation
Climate change is not
something that can be
addressed on
individual level as
commonly perceived
by many (4).
Application
This quote is not only important in
understanding what needs to be done to
overcome climate change but why existing
interventions that address individual
contribution to the topic have been ineffective.
Thus, although I try to do much on individual
level to make a difference on the world, this
alone is not enough. In regards to my paper, I
will use this quote to refute counterarguments
against my proposed solutions to climate
change. This quote is also connected to the
importance of communal interventions over
individualized measures in addressing matters
such as community health.
Surname 3
Chapter 3
First quote
Interpretation
Application
Wealthy countries
and regions can shift
their energy
infrastructure to
renewables in 20-40
years (101), but it
requires public
(governmental)
action which is
resisted by the
dominant ideology
In the next 20 to 40
years, wealthy
countries and regions
will need to opt for
renewable energy that
will require the
contribution of the
public sector to attain
this despite the
resistance posed by
the existing ideology
(101).
This quote is important to me as it offers a
viable and scientifically proven strategy for
addressing the issue of climate change.
Although there is minimal I can do in my
personal life regarding this solution, there is
room for contributing through minimizing the
amount of non-renewable energy I consume.
Further, I plan to use this solution as one of my
proposals for addressing climate change and
integrate the quote to back up my arguments.
This quote can be connected to other domains
such as the importance of renewable energies
such as wind in transforming the economy of
the country and the world at large.
Second quote
Interpretation
Application
The mechanisms
must seem fair,
socially just, and not
protective of
corporations and the
wealthy.
The mechanisms
implemented must be
fair and socially just
and not driven towards
protecting the interests
of corporations and
other wealthy
members of the
society (101).
This quote elaborates why past mechanisms
have been unsuccessful as they have focused on
protecting the interests of the minority wealthy
members of the society. This quote is primarily
connected to climate change as current
interventions mainly affect the minority
members of the society while the wealthy and
corporations that significantly contribute to the
problem do little or nothing to address the
problem. In writing my paper, I will address the
present intervention for climate change and
elaborate how they have favored corporations
and the wealthy hence deem the interventions
socially unjust and unfair. This quote can be
applied to the topic of poverty in the society that
involves looking for strategies that are fair and
socially just and eradicating the existing
measures that seek to protect corporations and
the wealthy. On a personal level, I believe this
quote emphasizes on the need to be fair and just
in my interactions with others and treat others
as I would want them to treat me.
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Copyright © 2014 Naomi Klein
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This changes everything : capitalism vs. the climate / Naomi Klein.
Includes bibliographical references.
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1. Climatic changes—Economic aspects. 2. Climatic changes—Political
aspects. 3. Climatic changes—Social aspects. 4. Capitalism. 5. Global
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For Toma
“We need to remember that the work of our time is bigger than
climate change. We need to be setting our sights higher and deeper.
What we’re really talking about, if we’re honest with ourselves, is
transforming everything about the way we live on this planet.”
–Rebecca Tarbotton, Executive Director of the Rainforest Action Network,
1973-2012
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“In my books I’ve imagined people salting the Gulf Stream, damming
the glaciers sliding off the Greenland ice cap, pumping ocean water
into the dry basins of the Sahara and Asia to create salt seas, pumping
melted ice from Antarctica north to provide freshwater, genetically
engineering bacteria to sequester more carbon in the roots of trees,
raising Florida 30 feet to get it back above water, and (hardest of all)
comprehensively changing capitalism.”
–Science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson, 2012
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CONTENTS
Cover
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Introduction One Way or Another, Everything Changes
PART ONE
BAD TIMING
01. The Right Is Right: The Revolutionary Power of Climate Change
02. Hot Money: How Free Market Fundamentalism Helped Overheat the Planet
03. Public and Paid For: Overcoming the Ideological Blocks to the Next
Economy
04. Planning and Banning: Slapping the Invisible Hand, Building a Movement
05. Beyond Extractivism: Confronting the Climate Denier Within
PART TWO
MAGICAL THINKING
06. Fruits, Not Roots: The Disastrous Merger of Big Business and Big Green
07. No Messiahs: The Green Billionaires Won’t Save Us
08. Dimming the Sun: The Solution to Pollution Is … Pollution?
PART THREE
STARTING ANYWAY
09. Blockadia: The New Climate Warriors
10. Love Will Save This Place: Democracy, Divestment, and the Wins So Far
11. You and What Army? Indigenous Rights and the Power of Keeping Our
Word
12. Sharing the Sky: The Atmospheric Commons and the Power of Paying Our
Debts
13. The Right to Regenerate: Moving from Extraction to Renewal
Conclusion The Leap Years: Just Enough Time for Impossible
Notes
Acknowledgments
Introduction
ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, EVERYTHING CHANGES
“Most projections of climate change presume that future changes–
greenhouse gas emissions, temperature increases and effects such as sea
level rise–will happen incrementally. A given amount of emission will
lead to a given amount of temperature increase that will lead to a given
amount of smooth incremental sea level rise. However, the geological
record for the climate reflects instances where a relatively small change
in one element of climate led to abrupt changes in the system as a whole.
In other words, pushing global temperatures past certain thresholds
could trigger abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes
that have massively disruptive and large-scale impacts. At that point,
even if we do not add any additional CO2 to the atmosphere, potentially
unstoppable processes are set in motion. We can think of this as sudden
climate brake and steering failure where the problem and its
consequences are no longer something we can control.”
—Report by the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
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the world’s largest general scientific society, 2014
“I love that smell of the emissions.”
—Sarah Palin, 2011
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A voice came over the intercom: would the passengers of Flight 3935, scheduled
to depart Washington, D.C., for Charleston, South Carolina, kindly collect their
carry-on luggage and get off the plane.
They went down the stairs and gathered on the hot tarmac. There they saw
something unusual: the wheels of the US Airways jet had sunk into the black
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pavement as if it were wet cement. The wheels were lodged so deep, in fact, that
the truck that came to tow the plane away couldn’t pry it loose. The airline had
hoped that without the added weight of the flight’s thirty-five passengers, the
aircraft would be light enough to pull. It wasn’t. Someone posted a picture: “Why
is my flight cancelled? Because DC is so damn hot that our plane sank 4? into the
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pavement.”
Eventually, a larger, more powerful vehicle was brought in to tow the plane and
this time it worked; the plane finally took off, three hours behind schedule. A
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spokesperson for the airline blamed the incident on “very unusual temperatures.”
The temperatures in the summer of 2012 were indeed unusually hot. (As they
were the year before and the year after.) And it’s no mystery why this has been
happening: 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. This irony—the fact that the burning of fossil fuels is so radically changing
our climate that it is getting in the way of our capacity to burn fossil fuels—did not
stop the passengers of Flight 3935 from reembarking and continuing their
journeys. Nor was climate change mentioned in any of the major news coverage
of the incident.
I am in no position to judge these passengers. All of us who live high consumer
lifestyles, wherever we happen to reside, are, metaphorically, passengers on Flight
3935. Faced with a crisis that threatens our survival as a species, our entire culture
is continuing to do the very thing that caused the crisis, only with an extra dose of
elbow grease behind it. Like the airline bringing in a truck with a more powerful
engine to tow that plane, the global economy is upping the ante from conventional
sources of fossil fuels to even dirtier and more dangerous versions—bitumen from
the Alberta tar sands, oil from deepwater drilling, gas from hydraulic fracturing
(fracking), coal from detonated mountains, and so on.
Meanwhile, each supercharged natural disaster produces new irony-laden
snapshots of a climate increasingly inhospitable to the very industries most
responsible for its warming. Like the 2013 historic floods in Calgary that forced
the head offices of the oil companies mining the Alberta tar sands to go dark and
send their employees home, while a train carrying flammable petroleum products
teetered on the edge of a disintegrating rail bridge. Or the drought that hit the
Mississippi River one year earlier, pushing water levels so low that barges loaded
with oil and coal were unable to move for days, while they waited for the Army
Corps of Engineers to dredge a channel (they had to appropriate funds allocated to
rebuild from the previous year’s historic flooding along the same waterway). Or
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the coal-fired power plants in other parts of the country that were temporarily shut
down because the waterways that they draw on to cool their machinery were either
too hot or too dry (or, in some cases, both).
Living with this kind of cognitive dissonance is simply part of being alive in this
jarring moment in history, when a crisis we have been studiously ignoring is hitting
us in the face—and yet we are doubling down on the stuff that is causing the crisis
in the first place.
I denied climate change for longer than I care to admit. I knew it was happening,
sure. Not like Donald Trump and the Tea Partiers going on about how the
continued existence of winter proves it’s all a hoax. But I stayed pretty hazy on the
details and only skimmed most of the news stories, especially the really scary ones.
I told myself the science was too complicated and that the environmentalists were
dealing with it. And I continued to behave as if there was nothing wrong with the
shiny card in my wallet attesting to my “elite” frequent flyer status.
A great many of us engage in this kind of climate change denial. We look for a
split second and then we look away. Or we look but then turn it into a joke (“more
signs of the Apocalypse!”). Which is another way of looking away.
Or we look but tell ourselves comforting stories about how humans are clever
and will come up with a technological miracle that will safely suck the carbon out
of the skies or magically turn down the heat of the sun. Which, I was to discover
while researching this book, is yet another way of looking away.
Or we look but try to be hyper-rational about it (“dollar for dollar it’s more
efficient to focus on economic development than climate change, since wealth is
the best protection from weather extremes”)—as if having a few more dollars will
make much difference when your city is underwater. Which is a way of looking
away if you happen to be a policy wonk.
Or we look but tell ourselves we are too busy to care about something so distant
and abstract—even though we saw the water in the subways in New York City,
and the people on their rooftops in New Orleans, and know that no one is safe, the
most vulnerable least of all. And though perfectly understandable, this too is a way
of looking away.
Or we look but tell ourselves that all we can do is focus on ourselves. Meditate
and shop at farmers’ markets and stop driving—but forget trying to actually change
the systems that are making the crisis inevitable because that’s too much “bad
energy” and it will never work. And at first it may appear as if we are looking,
because many of these lifestyle changes are indeed part of the solution, but we still
have one eye tightly shut.
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Or maybe we do look—really look—but then, inevitably, we seem to forget.
Remember and then forget again. Climate change is like that; it’s hard to keep it
in your head for very long. We engage in this odd form of on-again-off-again
ecological amnesia for perfectly rational reasons. We deny because we fear that
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letting in the full reality of this crisis will change everything. And we are right.
We know that if we continue on our current path of allowing emissions to rise
year after year, climate change will change everything about our world. Major
cities will very likely drown, ancient cultures will be swallowed by the seas, and
there is a very high chance that our children will spend a great deal of their lives
fleeing and recovering from vicious storms and extreme droughts. And we don’t
have to do anything to bring about this future. All we have to do is nothing. Just
continue to do what we are doing now, whether it’s counting on a techno-fix or
tending to our gardens or telling ourselves we’re unfortunately too busy to deal
with it.
All we have to do is not react as if this is a full-blown crisis. All we have to do
is keep on denying how frightened we actually are. And then, bit by bit, we will
have arrived at the place we most fear, the thing from which we have been averting
our eyes. No additional effort required.
There are ways of preventing this grim future, or at least making it a lot less dire.
But the catch is that these also involve changing everything. For us high
consumers, it involves changing how we live, how our economies function, even
the stories we tell about our place on earth. The good news is that many of these
changes are distinctly un-catastrophic. Many are downright exciting. But I didn’t
discover this for a long while.
I remember the precise moment when I stopped averting my eyes to the reality
of climate change, or at least when I first allowed my eyes to rest there for a good
while. It was in Geneva, in April 2009, and I was meeting with Bolivia’s
ambassador to the World Trade Organization (WTO), who was then a surprisingly
young woman named Angélica Navarro Llanos. Bolivia being a poor country with
a small international budget, Navarro Llanos had recently taken on the climate
portfolio in addition to her trade responsibilities. Over lunch in an empty Chinese
restaurant, she explained to me (using chopsticks as props to make a graph of the
global emission trajectory) that she saw climate change both as a terrible threat to
her people—but also an opportunity.
A threat for the obvious reasons: Bolivia is extraordinarily dependent on glaciers
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