EVEN ON THE LEFT, NAOMI KLEIN’S LATEST NOT GETTING A WARM RECEPTION. “Unfortunately, the result is a garbled mess stumbling endlessly over its own contradictions. Her understanding of the technical aspects of energy policy — indispensable for any serious discussion of sustainability — is weak and biased, marked by a myopic boosterism of renewables and an unthinking rejection of nuclear power and other low-carbon energy sources. Having declared climate change an ‘existential crisis for the human species,’ [15] she rules out some of the most effective means of dealing with it.”

I’ll believe it’s an existential crisis for the human species when the people who keep telling me it’s an existential crisis for the human species start acting like it’s an existential crisis for the human species.