Introduction ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, EVERYTHING CHANGES “stort fcnt hangs pn at ecg pens sna, pte ems ts ch a ve arene Ae sn ot le thal ret tris at en meat th ent ‘el lene ono te cate No tors rey onl Sangeet nt asp nee Ine nar wr pi lope te ‘a trees ae wee ac eta aot iresle lag athe mse te argent ee, woe dona aro nephe,ea p pee pcs sett mato ka san tk od in re re tn sls eg ge Be aes eee “ett ane tei” ‘Avo came ove he icc: wood the peng of Figh 3995, ‘hele wo deat Wabi, D.C, for Chan, South Caria ‘ely colece he arya gpg nd peo he lane. They went down teak a pred on the hoe mae. Thee hey ss somthing sual: he wheel fhe US Aiwa il ak (he Black pavement wf wee wer coment. The wheels we eed2 | rs exes events ep infact that che ck tha ame to row the plane away could sey elo. The line had hoped that without the alded weight ofthe gh’ ‘hinv-ivepaengers the ate woul be light ecu pleat Someone posted picture: "Why i my Aight cancelled? Because DC eo hasan ho hat ou plane sank 4 ins the pavement”? ‘Bvenrually 2 lrg, more powefl vehicle was Brought into tow the lane and this me i worked she plane fal ook of, tree hou behind schedule. A gokerpenon forthe line blamed the incident on ery n- sual emperors" “The temgernses inthe sumer of 2012 were indeed unusual he (As they were the yeas before andthe yer after) And it 0 mer why thishas been happening: the proigace burning of fol fel, the very ting thar US Aways was bound and determined wo do despite ineave sience presented by a meking tarmac. This iony—the fe ha che urn ing offs fies 0 racially changing our climate that its geting in the way of our capacity to bu fs fuels—did aoe stop the gssenger of| Fgh 3835 foa reembackng and comtnaing thei journeys Nor wat lc ‘mae change mensoned in any of he major news coverage ofthe cee. Tam inno postion to judge these pasenges. Al of us who Live high consumer isles, wherever we hapen to reside, ar, metaphorically, pas seages on Might 3935 Faced wah a as tha thestens cor survival as species, our entre culture contig to do che very thing hac cased the rin, only with an extra dove of elbow grease behind ie Lik the ir line bringing ina cack with a mote powerful engine co ow chat plan, the soba economy upping the ae form conventional sures ffl fl ‘even dir and more dangerous versions—bigunen fromthe Albera tr sands ol fiom depwetedeiling, som hye featuring (Facing), cal fom detonated nountsing and v0.08. Meanie, each supercharged naturel dase produces new tay laden snapshots of climate inesasngly inhospitable to the very industries ‘mos reszonuble fr warming. Like the 2013 itor foods in Caley that forced the head ofices ofthe oll companies ining the Alberta et suns to go dark and send thelr employees hors, while ein caring Asmmabl percleum produce retered onthe eg ofa dinteeting rail bride, Or che droghe chat ht he Misispi River one year er, push lng we levee Low hat barges loaded with ol and coal were unable to nove fo dip, while the wieder the Army Corps of Engines dedge 1 chanel (hey had to apropiaefunc allocated to ebuild fom the ee= ‘ious year's hirore footing long the sre watereay), Or the coal-ted ower plan in other pars of the country tha were veporely shutdown cause he waterways ht hey daw onto cel their machinery were ‘her to hoe ot dy (oe in some eases, bo). Living with this kind of cognitive dasonance& singly pr of being slve in chi jain nome in itor, when a criss we have ben stale ‘al gnoring is iting nthe ace—and yet we are doubling down on ‘he ssf hat casing the rin he rt lace [denied climate change fr longer than I et admit. Tne i was happening sre. Not like Donald Trump and the Tea Parties ging on shout how the concinued exitence of wit proves all «hoax. But | sexed prety hay onthe deri and ony skimmed most fhe news tres, special the realy cary ones Fad myself the science was 00 cmplic ‘ted and thar he environmenralisa were dealing with ic. And Tcontinued to bebave aif hee was ating wrong withthe shiny card in my wale sesing omy elite quent yer sas ‘A great many of us engge in tht Kind of elimate change dena. We look fra split second end then we look away. Or we look Bae den sam tc tac ake (more sig of the Apocalypse!” Which another ay of looking away ‘Or we lok bu tl ounelvscomforing ois abou how humans are lever and wl ome up wich techroopcal mc ha wl safely suck the easton out of theses or magially tam down the hes of the su, Which, warm dacover while searching thisbook yet another way of | looking ay. (Or we ook ba ty to be hype rtional abou tala fr dela ‘more eficen to focus om economie development than climate change, since mel ie bes potection fom weathereemes)—asfhavieg 2 few more dollars wll make mich diference when your cir irundereaer Which a way of looking nny i you happen bea policy won. (Or we oak but lous we ae to busy to care abou mating so disane and absric—even though we saw the water in che subways in‘New Yack City. andthe people on thee roftops in New Orleans, and know that no one safe, che mos wulerbl leas fall. And chovgh perly underandabe chi too away of loking a. ‘Or we lok br ell ourselves chat all we can do focus on cues Matitae and shop a fame’ kes ad stop divng-—bus forge tng ‘actly change the stems that are making the cis inevitable Because ‘hats to nich bad energy" and iewill ever work. Ad at et it may ap- pear asifwe ate ooking, because many of hte frye changes ar indoed rc ofthe slut, but we sil have one eye ily shut. (Or maybe we do look—realy look—but then, ievitably, we sem to forget Remember and chen forget again Climate change is ke chats Jarl to keep ic in your ead for ver long. We engage in chi od fra of en-apin-offaginecolopcal amnesia fo peed ational reasons, We any beezge we fear thi ering in che fl rely of this crisis wll change eveything. And we ae ight? ‘Weknow tat fe continue on our caren path falling emisions to rise year afer year, climate change wil change everything about our wot. Major ccs wil very ely drown, ancine cures wil be sal lowed by the seas, and thee i a very hgh chance that our children will spend 2 get del of thee ves cig and rcovenng fom vicious om sand exreme doughs. And we don’ have todo anything to bring about ‘his fur. All we have ro do noting Just cnn odo what we ae {bing now whether ith counting on a techno-Gx or tending wo ou dens oc tlling curelves we're unfocranatly too buy to deal with. Allwe have todos ot eat if this afl own css, All we ave todo is keep on denying how fighzned we acully ae. And then, bit by "a, we wll have arrived athe place me moet ea he thing ame which we fave ren averting our yes, No adits fe oie ‘Thorac ways of preventing thie rn fre, or a eae making it ot es dive. Bu he catch is thac these lo involve changing everything For ‘sigh consumes it involves changing how we lve, how our economies function even che stories we ell about our place on earth. The ood ews thac many ofthese changes ae dsinelyuncatazophic- Many ae dosn righ exciting Bat dda dscover hier along whl T remember the precise moment when I stopped sveting ny ey to thereaity oflimate change, or atleast wea Lsallowed my eves toes there for 3 god while I warn Geneva in April 2009, and I was eee ing with Bolivia abasador tothe World Trade Orzaniation (WTO), ‘showas then a arpraingy young worun amed Angélica Navaro Lane, Bova being 8 poor county with a small xeratonal budge, Nayar ans ha ecenytken on the climate orion addon ro her trade resonable Overkineh nan empty Chinese estauran, she explained to me (sing chops a props to make a graph ofthe gba enision trajectory chat she sw climate change bth a a tebe thret to et people—but also sn opportnig. ‘A threat for dhe obvious rensone Bolivia i extrnndinanly dependent on glacier fri dishing ad imgation water and thore whte-capped mountains chat tower over it eptal were tung gay ard Bown at an larming rte The oppetniny Nava Llsnce sid, wat hat since coun ‘ies Iie hers had done alast nothing to send emisons soaring they were itv poion to delice themselves “einatecedites” owed money and technology aupprefom the large emitter to defy che ey ens fea ing with moe climate rated der, a well arto help them develop on 2 een energy pth ‘Se had escent given a speech a United Nations climate cone ‘nee i which she aid out the case for hese kinds of wealth rans enc the gave me a copy. “Millon of ppl," ea, “in sll sands, lease developed counts, landlocked counts a well a waleble communi tiesin Bras India and China anda around the workt—are feng fom the fers of« problem to which cher dil aoe contribute... Ewe ae 29 ‘ub eminiona inthe next dvade, we needa masive mobilsaon larger than any in histor. Weneed a Manall ln fr the Ea, Tal plan ust tmobile Snancing and technology tan on sale nave scan before. It tat ge technology ano the sound in every coun 0 enete we rece misions hil ing pop uli of ie, We have ely 3 deca. (Of course « Mahl in forthe Barth would be ver coty—hndeeds of ills if ao lion of dalle (Navaro Limos was reluctant to same fir). And one might have choughethac the cost lone woul make i { nonstrer—afer all cis wat 2009 and the global acl cis wa in fullewing. Yer the grinding lose of mstersy—rassng onthe bake bills1 rms anes even to the prone in the form f publ eto ao, schoolclonts, an he Wee—had noe yebeen normale, So rather than aking Neva Llanos ‘seas Seem les pluie, the cris had the oppoite eft. ‘We hadall ue watched a wilions of dolla were marshal ina mo ment when cu eles decided eo declare a isi the banks wee allowed ‘ofa we were told the et ofthe economy would elle. e mas mat te of coletive survival, dhe mane a to be fund, Inthe proces, some athe lage fiona he heat of aureconomc ten wee expe (Needmore money? Print some!) A few years eas, governments tok 2 similar approach to public nance after the Sepeember er atac, Te rny Wester counties, when it eam 1 constucing the security] surveillance sate at home and waging war abroad, budgets never cemed tobean ine Climate change hasnever received he csitreatment fom ur ender, despite the fc hai caries the risk of deseoyng ives ona vay geste seal than collapsed banks or eolaped bling. The cis to our een howe gs eonisions cae seine tll ae neces a cade to gestly reduce the risk of exarophe ae tested a noting mere than gene ag getons, actions tha canbe put off rey mach indefinitely Clery, what gr declared cess an expression of power and prose as much hard fac, Bt we need noc be specraos i al this polars ae he only ones wich the power to declare scsi: Mase movements of rgulat pele an dele one to, Savery wan't a cis for Btish nd American lie nt abolionim tamed tino one Racial discrimination wan ce ntl the civ ihe movement ued itneo one Sex dirimiation want a cri wt emi- ism tumed i ino one Apartheid wasn sexi une the sat apaceid ‘movement timed it into one In he ery same way f enough fw sto locking sway and decide tha elinate change isa crs worcy of Mahal Plan level of espns, chen, icwill become ose, nd the polisl cast wll have to rpond, bth by ‘making resources evalale and by bending che fee markers that have proven so pllable when elite interes ae in pel. We oxetsionally etch lmpssof his potential when a criss pus climate change a the font of ur minds fora while. "Maney i no objet in thi rel efit. Whatever money lsneded frit willbe sen," eclaed Brith prime minister Dai Cameron Me. Ausety himslf—when lage parts of his eounery were ndereater rom hoi ooding in February 214 ae the public was en ‘aged thats goverment was aot doing more to bel. Listening to Navaro Llanos describe Bolivia pepecive, I began to undereand how cline change—if created asa gue planetary ener ec skin to thowe ring od wates—coud become a galvansng force foe human, eving ur ll not at ser Seen exteme weaer, bu With seclties tha aresafr and fer inal kind of oher ways aswell. The sources equi to apidy move aay fom fs fuels and prepare forthe Coming heavy wether could pll hag swat f humanity out power, providing services sow scl aking, rom clean water elec. Tis isa vison of che fate tha gous bond jut uring a enduring climate change, beyond maging” and “adaping” co en the gun language of| the United Nations. ei vison in which we collectively we the exis leap somewhere that seems, ary beter than where we ae right pom "Aletha convertion, fund dat | no lenges feared unmesing sein the scientific eaity ofthe climate trex. 1 soped avidin dhe ales and the wcientfe makes and read everthing I could fn Lalo roped cutoucing he problem the environmen, stoped telling ‘nye this was somebaly ese tox, somebosy ese’ jb. And through conventions with other inch growing climate justi movement, [begin ‘ose kind of ways that clinae change could Become caoing free for poivechange—how i could be the best angumen progrenives have ‘ver ad to demand therebulding and reviving of oa ecaomas 0 ‘nim our democracies fm comoiv compre influence Hock harefl ‘ew feta deal and rewrite ld ones to invest in starving pubic ina srctre like ma rit and affordable boing; ake Bock ownership of exsentl services Like enna and water: to remake our sick ager ‘yee int something mich eae: to open borers to agents whose Allacementie inked lima impacto nally respect Indigenous ind rights—allofwhich mov elp tend grotesque levelsf inequality within curnasion an between them And I starved to see sgrs—eew coalitons and fish arguments— Iintngachow, if thee variou connection wee more wielyundestond,the urgency ofthe climate ex sould form che bast of & pomeril mast ovement, one that would weave al thete seemingly para ltues oro 2 coherent narative about how to prover humaniy from the rages of both asavagely unjust economic stem anda detailed climate sem. ‘nave wren thi ook because came tothe consi that ciate action could provide just such are ata A People's Shock Bur Lalu wrote i Because climate change can be a cats fora range of ‘vey eiffeen and far es desinbl fora ial political, nl economic ‘eansformatio, have spent the Lae Sten years imac in research about soce- tes undeqoing exteme shoeks—caused by economic meltdowns, natal disses, tenor ack, and was. Apd Ihave looked deeply io how sociees change in chse periods of emendous tres. How these events change the callie sens of what posible for beter but mow foe worse. As | dscused in ay last hook, The Shock Decne, over the pas ‘ou decaes corporat interns have sentially exploited these various forms of ess ram through pois that enrich a sal elite—by iting egulaons, cating sot pending and forcing ange scale privaczatinsof ‘he pli sphere. They hav lo heen the exe for extreme exacklowns on cil bers and cling huran igh laos And there ae pleny of signs that clinawe change will be no exception—that rather chan parking soltons hat have a eal chance of preventing caastophic warning and peoecting us fom inevitable das ‘ex sheers willonce sain beszedupn to hand overyemarersurces to the I percent. You can ee the eatly tages of his proce lead. Com ‘muna ornts arcu the weed ar being tamed sen prvatod es fs tne preeret ther ownerscan cole omething ale carbon cod a lucrave sam explore law There isa booming wade in weather fi ‘ures allowing companies nd banks to gamble on changes athe weather sf deadly distr were agate ona Veg rape rable (bere 2005 ane 2006 the weather derivatives market jumped early etl, fom $8.7 il lon t $45.2 billion) Global reisurince companies are making bilons in rls, n parc selling new kids of protectin schemes > developing counties that have dane almost nothing to erate che climate ers, but whos infarc intensely vulnerable tits impacs And in a momen of eandor, the wespoas glant Raytheon explained, “Expanded busines opportunities wz ley area conmurerbehaviout and needs change in repose to climate change" Those oppor in ‘ule nr jut more demand forthe emmpany/’s privat dase sponse eovices bt alae "demand for ies altary products and viet skesty cancers may aie a sul of ought, foo, and storm evens occur as 2 re of clinare change This # wort remembering whenever doubts Creepin about the urgency ofthis cise che private malta are seedy raobliing Deoughts and foods crete al nds of basins opporuniies besides 3 rowing demand fr men wich guns. Berween 2008 and 201, a leas 261 patents were fed related to growing late reaiy” cope—seds suppor tdi ale to wihtand extreme wether concn of these patents lose 19 80 percent were contlled by six agrbsines giants, ncading Monsanto tnd Syngenta Sepentorm Sandy, mean, hasbeen 2 wil fr New enya eae developer who have received ellions for sew cons ‘io nlighely damaged reas, while itconciues tobe anightare for those "ving in ard public hosing, ach a the afermach of Huicane Kar ‘na played out in New Orleans.” None ofthis srpsing. ding new ways to private the commons ud poi tom dtr what our cent ste bl odo fw ‘en devi it capable of maching ele. The shock doctrine, however, othe only way societies repood were, We have all winesd his ‘cent year athe nail meledowrn char began on Wall Sree i 208 Tevetberated around the world. A siden ein fod price helped cents the conditions for she Arab Spring. Austerity policies have inspied mass movement fr Gresser Spain to Chile to the United Stats Que. Many of usare geting loc beter a standing up eo chose who would eri- cally exploit ries torasack he public sphere. And ye chase pte have slkoshown that saving no snot enough, opposition movements ar todo ‘more than bur bight ad then burs ot, they will eed 2 compechensiveson for whar shold emerge i the place af uring yer, swell a seriou politcal saree forhow t achive thee pale Proresives used to know bow to do chi Thee iach populis his- tory f wining big victrefr cial and econo jute inthe id of lange ale cries. These ince, mos nora he policies ofthe New Deal sfer the matketcrah of 1929 andthe birch of ounces social proges fer Word War I. These pois were so popular with voter that ting hem raed int di not eqiethekind of authors ker the documented in The Shock Dorie. Whar wa eset was bling nc armas movement caable of sanding up to dhose defending filing stats «oo, and hat demanded asian fer share ofthe economic i foe everyone A few ofthe ling (hough embared) lec ofthese excep tonal historia moments ince puble health inssance in any com ties od ag persons, subd using, nd publ anding forthe as Tam convinced tat climate change epresns a histrc opportunity on an even peter seal. At par ofthe prjerf geting cur emission down to the levels many scents commend, we once aun have the chance to advance polices that dramatically improve lives, close the gp between sich and poog crate hage number of god jae, and reivigonte deme racy fom the grouel up: Rather han the ulieate expression of the shock octrine—afeney of new resource grabs and represion—climte change ‘cin be a Pople Shock, blow fom below cei dpe power at the Janes ofthe many rather than consolidating tin the hands ofthe fe; and radically expand the commons, xe than aucloning it ofin pecs, And where iht-wing shock doctor exploit emergencies (both el and man facture) n oe push though polices thar make us even more rs prone the Keds of rnforatons decd in these pages would do the crac parte they would eto the root of why we ae fcing sel crac sn the is plce, and would lave ws wa bods a more habitable cline thar the ove we ae headed fer ad far more unt economy then the ane see have rie nome But before any of these changes can happen-—befre we can believe thar climate change can change tee fat have top looking sa “You ave been negating my Mf” So aid Canaan college saent [Ali Appedul, ae she stared down the ssembled goverment nego sors a the Z0L1 United Nations cline conference in Durban, Such ‘Aft, She was ot exaggerating. The we governmens have been tai ingabourpreventing climare chang fo more than two decade they gan negoiing the yea that Anal, chen twency-one yarsold, was oes And ‘yetasshe pointed her memonble speech on che eaewenticn doo de Tverd on behalf ofl ofthe assembled oung people “In hace, uve filed romeeledges you've mised ares, and you've broken promises" tut, the integovemmental boy ented eo prevent “danger cu levelf ciate change hasnt onl filed to make progres ore is enya year of work and ore than niney oficial ngoration mec ingtaince the aqreement was adopt), char oveneen a precesofvinally sninterupedbncaiding, Our governments ward yar fing numbers and squabbling over start dae, perpen crying mo gt extensions like sendergads wth ate term popes. “The caatophe esl fal this obfuation and procraination i sow undeniable. Preliminary dua shows that i 2013, global carton dio ide easions were 61 pace: higher than they were én 1930, when nego- tations toward climate meaybepin in eames. As MIT economist John Rely pus: "The more we tlk abou the neud wo coatleasions, che roc hey ae ring” Indeed the only thing sing faster than ou emis sions che output works pledging lower chem, Meanwhile the annual UN, clinae summis, which remains the bet hope fo pola beak through om lina ston, has eared o sem lik a foram fr seiout repocison than avery coy and high-etbon group therapy session a place for the rpeetenatvs of the mor vulnerable counties in the word fo ven their ge and age while low-level epasnenties of the naiont lage esponabl for di raga stare a ei ahoes = “This as been the mood evesince the collapse ofthe mach-hype 2009 UN, cima mmm in Copenhagen. On the lastnight ofthat aasive ucberog [found mye wih a group of climate justice activi, inca ing one ofthe most prminent campaigners in Bean. Throughout the summit, this young man had been the pene of enfence ad como ‘ure, briefing davens of joumaliss 2 dy on wha ad gone on during eachround of negations and what the various emision targets meant in che real word, Despite the challenges, his gcse abou the suet’ pros pacts never aged. Once ie was allover, however, ad hep del at lon, he fel aar before our eyes Siting in an ove ean resaurae, he began tos unconmlly "ely thought Obama understood,” he epeeepating. Tae come to think ofthat night ache climate movement’ coming of ge ewar he moment when the elation ely snk in that noone wat coming 10 ave. The Bresh pryehoanalys and climate spi Sally ‘Weintobedeecibes hiss he summits undarsensllegay”—the care and painful reaeton tha our leaden ae not looking afer... we are rot cared for ae level of our very suvival"® No matter how many ties vse have ben dnpoined bythe fling fur plinth elintion sell comes as Blow really dhe ese that we are on ur own and ay credible cure of hope inthis criss wl have o come fom belo Tn Copentagen, the major polting govemmens—inciiing the Unicel Sts and Chira—signed a nonbinding aprementpldeing © lecp temperatures fom inereasing more than 2 degrees Celsius above where they were before we started meri our economies with oa (That converts © an increas of 3.6 degrees Faverheit) Tis wellknown ar et, which supporedly represents the “sf” mic of climace change, has alvays been a highly poltcal choice thac as more wo do wich naiising ‘economic diopion than with protecting the greatest umber of people ‘When the 2 deres sarge was made oficial in Copenhagen, there wee Impasioned objections fom many delgues who sid dhe goa! amounted to “deth sentence for some low lying land eaten as well sor large parts of Sub Seharan Aft, In acl avery ky tage fr all fw: 50 fa eperatues have inrese by jut 5 degre Calis andwe se alendy experiencing many alarming impr, inching the unpresdented mle tng of the Greenland ie shoe in the suramer of 2012 and she aiica- tion of eceane fa mare spily than expected. Allowing temperate © ‘warm by more chan evice that amount will unquestionably have perlous consequences!" Jn 2012 repr, she World Bank id ou the gamble ingle by that tayget "As loal warming approaches nd exceed Zeer Cebia,there leak uiggering nonlinear siping elemens. Examples include the ds integration ofthe West Antarctic ce sheet leading to more rapid eave sie, o large-scale Amazon dicback dsl afectngecsyzons, rive, terete, energy prodiction, and lveihoods. This would Sather ald to Dsecentary loa warsing and impact ene continents" In otber words once we allow terpenes to ln pst certain pin, where che era stops noe in our conc ‘Bur the big prclentand the eon Copenhagen caused sch rest lspai—is thr been governess id sot agree binding ages hey tne fet etry ach gnre thei commitments. Which precisely what le happening Indeed, emisions ars 0 rapidly that ules something radical changes within our eznonie structure, 2 deges sow looks ke ‘ opian dees. And it not environmental who ae rain the lar. The Weld Bask lio warmed when iesslensd its repor that "were tack fora 4°C warmer world [by century end] athe by exteme heat raves, declining global fod rocks, of cares and Medien and life-threatening sea lve rie” And the reper cautioned that, thee is also no cern thae adaption to 24°C weld posible” Kevin An- denon, former drerr (now depury desc) ofthe Tydall Cente for (Climate Change Research, which has quickly established tselfas one ofthe UUs premier climate research ttions even Murer, be says 4 de- ees Cele warming 12 degrees Fahrenhee—i incompatible with ny ‘estonblecharacerzation of an egal, equitable and eve global oouruniy."* ‘We don know exacily what a4 degrees Claus wo woud lok lke, but oven the Hesse sna eH to be calamitous Four degrees of| sreming could ie lol evel orp even 2 mete: y 2100 (Gnd would lok na ef addlonal mates over fur centuie) This would down some land navons sch athe Maldives and Tava, snd inundate many coustal aes fom Ecuador ad Bra the Nether lands ro much of Calfomia andthe nathenzer Unie Seats, a well as hge swath of Souh and Sousheas Asi. Major cities likely in jeomardy inclade Boston, New York, greater Los Angeles, Vancower, London, Mum- tas, Hoag Koag, and Shanghai” ‘Meanie brat hea waves that can il ens thousnds of people,even in wealthy countries, would become ently unremarkable sucet evens on every continent hit Antactis, The het woul alo cause pe crops ro fe dramatic eld les ers the gabe (it poe that In- Gian wheat and US. com coud plummet by at mich 9 perent, heat tine when demand wil be rusing due rm populcion growth and grow ing demand fr meat. And since crop wl be facing noc jut heat tes but also extreme evens sch a wide-anging droughts, fonding, or pes reas, che loses could easly tum out tobe more sevete chan she models have predicted, When you add nous urine, aging wiles, fberes collapses, widespread dipions to water spac etinetons, and slobe- trotting diseases to che mix, i indeed becomes dficulew inagine chat 2 peaceful, deed socety could be utine (cat i where sacha thing exis athe place). Ane keep in mind hat these are the opimisicsenais in which warming is moe ols sable a 4 degrees Cel and doesnot rigger ping fonts beyond which renaway warning woud occur Based a the Tats modeling, iis Becoming safer to assume thar 4 dees could bing sour a number of eemely dangerous feedback lops—an Arctic that regubtly cetee in September, for instance, of asoring fo one recent sy lobel vegetation that to satute oa elle “sink” ea Ing > more cabon being ented rather than store. Once this happens, any hope of peicung impr prey mich gos othe window. An chi proces may be starting sooner than anyooepredited. Ia May 2014, NASAL and Unies of Calo, vine lense reveled tha gir mel in section of West Antarctica roughly these of Fance now "appeas un _soppable” This kel pls docen forthe entire West Antastic ce het, which scoring 2 lead sudy author Eric Rigno “somes with as level ‘ae of between tree and ive meus, Such an event wil deplace mains of people worldwide." Te duneegration, however, ould unfold over cen: ‘ecir and cher i line for emision reductions to sow down the po casa preven he worse” Mach more figheening than any ofthis ithe fc ht plenty of es ‘sveam analysts think chat on our curentemisios tjectory, we are headed for even more than 4 degrees of warming. In 201, the ually sid Teeeratonal Enerey Agency (IEA) ised a epee projecting at we ae scully ontrack fr 6 dors Cekis—10.8 deans Fabrenhet—of warm- ing. And athe IEAS chief econo pur it: “Everjbody even the school hilten now cha hit wil ve eatataphic inplations forall of us.” (The evince indcates that 6 desees of warming i ikely t en = tion seve aoe tipping poess—nor oly slower ones uch asthe afore- mentioned beskdown ofthe Went Ante ice sheet, but omy more hep ons like masive reese of methane rom Aree pease) The sccounting giant PiewatahouseCoopers hs ao published aeporwarn- ing busines that we are headed or "4°, cr even 6°C" af warming” ‘These vaiuspeoecions are the equivalent of every alr i your house pin off siultansculy, And then every lam on your sme going ffs ell one by one byone. They mean, ute simpy hat imate change tar became an existent esis for che an species. The only historical precedent for cxsisf hs depth and scale was che Cald War fer thar we ‘ere heading tomar nice locau, which would have made mc of| ‘he planer uninhabitable, But chat wa and emai) a threat lim pos sli should pps spl our ofecato. The vase any of acne ‘cients neve tld that me were lost certain gong to put our i> ‘Heaton in pee if we kept ging abou our dail lives as usual doing exacly ‘whore were aed doing, which what ce climate scents have been telling us for years ‘As the Oho Ste Univesity clinatlogit Lean G. Thompson, «| vorldenowned specialities mel, explained in 2010, Climatolo- is lke other stents, end tobe a told group. We ae oe given 2 ‘est rartngy about alin his, Most of ws ae fr wore comfortable In out aborts or gucherng dat in che Sl than we ae giving i ‘erent jounali o speaking before Congressional commictes. Why ‘hen ae climatlopsts speaking ot about the dangers of bal warming? ‘The anoweriethat virally fur arenow convinced che lobal warming poner clear and present dang to iliaion"! Te dbemit gx much lene chan that. And yr ether than ponding wih alr and doing everything in our pave to change couse, lage pars of tumanity we qui cocina, contnsing down the we read. Oly ice «he pasengers aboard Fight 3935, adel by a more pose die engine. Whaeis wong witha!1 | scans ever Really Bad Timing Many anor that question have been feed, ranging from the excreme {ical of een all the governments inthe wero ges on anyehng, co an absence of tealechnclgialsluions to semething deep in out man nature that keeps us fm acting ia the fice of seemingly emote reas, to-—more ecentiy—the claim that we have blown anya and there sno poinin even tying todo much more than enjoy the scenery on the war down Some of thet explanations are vali, but ala linatly inadequate “Take che lain char i jus to hard for so many coun to ages on a ours of action. Ieishard. But many nes inthe past, che United Nations has helped goverments to come rgethe t tackle ugh ers-border challenges, fom osonedepesion to nels polieretion. The deals pro oced ween perf, bu they seprasntad el proges, Moreover dung the sme yar that our governments filed to enact a wough and bind- ing legal archieceue requlting emision reductions, suporedly because cooperation wat too comple, they managed wo crete the World Trade (Organisation an inate global ester that regulate the ow of goods sand services around the planet, under which che rules ae cleat and volar sions are bahly penalised. “The axeron that we have ben held back by ack of technologie solutions 0 more compelling, Powe rom renewable sources Uke wind tne water predates the ue of fons ul ands becoming cheaper, moe Scent, and easier wo sone every yea. The pat emo decades have seen a cplorion of ngeniou sero-arte desig, as wll geen urban planning. Nov oly doe hae che technical tol to of folic, we ales have no end of sll pockeu where these lw cason lees have ben etd with remendour cco. And yer the kind f lagescale ansiton chat would give ua cllctive chance of venting cxtarrophe eater us bij human nature tha hols usbock then! In fat we humans have shown ouselie willing 9 collectively merce inthe face of threats many ties met fmol inthe embrace of atoning, victory exrens and wie- tory hone during World Was Tan I nded to suport il conserstion | uring World Wa pensite ving wa virally eliminate in the UK, snd benveen 1958 and 1944, se of pul was wens up by 87 percent in the US. and by 95 percent Canada. Twenty milion US houeholde— reposting thee fhe ofthe population —were rowing vey gardens in 1943, and thir yields accoure fo 42 percent ofthe eh vegebles ‘ond that year [een al ofthese ative together deemati- cally reoce carbon emisions™ ‘Yes thethret of war seemed nimediate and concrete but 20 20 ithe threat posed bythe climate cris that has already likely been a substan ‘conebitor to manive dastes in soa ofthe wodd’ major cies. Sel “neve gane sot since the days af wate nerf, havent ne? Contes ors bunts ae too seléentered, too aired to grtcation t hve ‘thou che fill Fedo wo sat ou every whim—or so ou cule cls eve day. Andy the rath that we continue to make ealletve- ries in dhe name of an absrace rater good al the tne. We set out ‘pemions ourhard-won labor ight, oar arte and afterschool programs, We ‘Send ou Kis to lam in evermore eroned claro, ld by ever more ‘pared teaches We acep that we have to pay dramacally moe fr the esocive energy sources hat ower cur transportation and oulives, We _sccope tat bus and subwny ire go up and up while servis flo improve cor depenertes, We accept thar «public univers edvaton should ret invade tha wil ake alfa ete o pay ff when such a hing wa ‘ea fa generation ag. In Cac, where Ive, we are in the mie of sccepting tht our ican no longer be delivered wo out homes “The pat chiny yeas have Been a teady proces of pting lanl inthe public sphere, Ths all defended inthe name of austere the cut rent jutifeaton for hese neverending demand for elective sce. In the aus other word and phrves, emily abeaced fom daly ie, have served a sini purpose: balanced badges, ncesedeficlncy,fosteing| economic growth esc tome thar humans ar capable of acing this much cll sive bene inthe name af stabising an econoaie ster that ake daly Me so much more expensive and precaius chen surly humans should be capable of making some important little changes in the inet of| szablicing the physial stems pon which al of fe depends Especially because any of he changes thar need tobe madetodramaricallyeatemis- sions woul also materially improve the quality of le forthe majority of| people on he planer—fom allowing kisin Beijing play ous without8 | rms cua everrrine ‘easing polation masks to creating good obs in clean ence sector for nin. There seems to be no shortage of both short-term and med ‘erm incentives odo the igh thing for cur elinat “Tene i ihe to be sure. But we could commit oureles, tomorow £2 rately cating our fri uel emisions and beginning the shit xo carbon sources of energy based on renevable ecology, wih 2fl-blown tension urderesy within the deca, We have the ros odo that. And if we dd, he sexe woul ll rie and che storms would sl come, but we ‘would sand a much grater chance of preventing tly atatophie ware sng. Indeed, ene nations could be ved fom the wave. As Pablo Solén Bolvalsformerambasedor tothe United Nations pus "fl bud your hous he lest cas do isweleme ou ino my house... and Tm barn tog ight now sould ty tose te fice now" ‘Berwe are not sping the eI fac we ar dowsing i with gasoline. ‘Afr arate decline in 2009 doe to the foal ex elobal emisions sped bya whopping 59 percent in 2010—e last abot increase since che Indu Revolution." Soy and keep coming back othe queton: what wrong with i ‘Wha realy preventing ur fom puting out thee that hrestening > tuum down ou collective howe? 1 hin the anower fr mre simple chan may hav ed to bli we have no danethe things hat are necesary to lower emissions because thowe dings faery conic wth deregulated capital che ig ing Seog fo he ene prod we have ben ging find a mayo ofthis esis: Weare sack buceuse the actions chat woul give u the bes hanes of averting caeutrophe—and would bene the vast majoiy—ae| ‘serenely threatening an elie minor tharhat a anglhold ove ove economy, cu politi poses, and mos of eur major media cule. That problem night ac have been inaareountable hadi pemnted nel aan ‘othe point incur history, But sou grea colecrve msfote that che seleniiccomzmity made ts decisive amos ofthe climate threat ache rece moment when tow eltes wee enjoyirg more unferered politcal, cull and intellectual power thin at any pint ince the 1920 indeed, governments ard scientists began elking eiusy about radial cuts ‘reenhouce gat emission in 1988—che exact yar that mad the dawaing ofwhareametobe alle! "lokalstion, wich he sgringo the agreement representing the worl args trl trade elaticship between Canad sed the United States, arto be expanded ito the Noth Amesican Free “Tiade Agreement (NAFTA) with the inclusion of Mexico "When historians ook bacon the pst are en af intentional negolaions,1#0 defining proeses wll standout. There wil be che li rate proces: strung, puteieg fling uel to achiev ts goals And there wil be the corporate globalization proces, ooming from veo t© ‘etry: om thet fis ie ade del to the cretion of the Weld Trade COrpniasion to che mas pevution ofthe former Soviet economis £9 the anfomnation of ge prs of Ai nto sprung eee one 0 ‘he “sweuctal adjusting of Afia. There were seibacks to thar proces, 10 be sre—for example, popular pushback thar alld rade rounds and fe trade dels. But what remained access were he ideological unde ening ofthe ence pojec, which was never really about wading goeds ero bordens—sllingFench wine in Ba forinwance, or US. soevare tn China. Iwas alway bose wing thee seeping desl ar well range sfosher tools, lock n a global policy fame tha provided maximum freedom 2 maltinaional corporations wo pradce thes goals a cheaphy ‘pore sn sel them with afew relations a posble—mhile paying as lie in axes possible. Granting this corporate wiht, we were told, would fel economic growth, which would tickle down other of, evenually Te eae deals maceed only ino fas they soo in fo and hy atclated thie fr boade ged ‘The thre poly pill of thi new eae fart wall: privat ton of he public sphere deregulation ofc corporat sete, and lower ‘corps tation paid for with can > puble ending, Mach hasbeen | ‘rien abou the real-world cons ofthese policie—theinsably of 6 ancl marke, he excasies of the spersich, and the desperation ofthe increasingly dpomble pos a well athe fling sats of publi ints. ture and serves. Very lil, however has Been writen about how market Sandamentali hs, fom the very Sst moment, systematically aboaged curcolectve response ro climaze change, a treat that came knocking jist 15 this ideology was teaching ts seth ‘The core problem wat thatthe sranlehold hat marke oe secured cove publi ifn this period made the most det and obvious lint sponse seem poliiealy heel. How, or stance, could oie invest[us emacs evenrrne ‘aasivly in se-caton public services and infasuctue at 2 ine when the ple sere was being sptematially dimanvled snd auctioned of! How could governments heavily regulate, ta and penal esl fel com- nis when ll uch measures wee being dissed a is of ‘command snd conto” communism? And how could the rnevable energy setor + cxve the sopors and protections it nem to replace fs fuels when protetcnen’ had ben made diy word? ‘A dlferent kind of climate movement would have ted to challenge the exreme ideology that wes Blocking © much serie acon, joining wih her aces co show ow unfered corporate power posed a pave heart dhe abla ofthe plane ese, large pars ofthe climate rmoverent wate precious decades artemptng to make the square peg of the climate er nz the round hole of deregulated capital, forever touting mas forthe ple to be waved bythe make cell. (Though it ss only years into this projet that I covered the depts of collusion becween bg polls and ig Geen) Bur Mocking strong climate action wasn't ee only way that the t- ‘ump of make findamenalsm ated o deepen the ci in this eo, ven more directly, che polis tha 0 succestlyfced muliasonl corpratins om vrualy all eonsatnts alo contribated ginny the underng cau of global warming—rieing peenhouse ge emsions ‘The numbes ar suing inthe 19505, a the marker interation poject ‘amped up, lel emisions were ging up an average cf pce a yeas by the 20005 with “emerging makes like China now ly negated isto the worl economy, emisions growth had apd up dma, with the annual a of increae reaching 3.4 percent a year for much ofthe decade “Thae rapid growth rte continues t this day nape nly rey in 2009 by the weld mance ‘With hndsigh, ies hard oe how ic could have tuned out cherie “The win signin of heer have hen the mas export of procs sro vst ditances (lel Burning enon all che way), and the tnpor of uniquely wastefl mael of producion consti, and aiculare te every comer of dhe world (ao bred onthe profligate Buming ffx fons. Pu ferent, he liberation of world marke, a proces powered bythe lberaion of urgecedented amount of foi fs rm the earth ‘racemic sped up the same proces that i ibeting Ate ie fm Asa rel wenow fd ouslves ina very ifs ad ghey ioe po sion. Beene of hoz decades ofhardore ming exact when we were supose tobe cutng back, the things we must do to avoid catastophic srzming a no longer just confit wid the parclar sain of dee Jared capil that wismphed inthe 1980s. They ae ow in ot with the fundamental imperative atthe est of ur economic mode: grow ordi. nce carton has been emia so dhe atmosphere, i ack arn for hundreds of yer, some oft even anger rapping est. The eft are cumulative, going more severe wich tne, And acording eo emisions specialists le the Tyll Cente’ Kevin Anderson (ae well othe), ‘rch carbon ha ben allowed to accumulate inthe stoaphee over the pst two decades chat now cur only hope of keeping warming below the intematinaly agreed-upon tage of 2 degrees Celsius is for wealthy coun cat theiremisions by socewher in che neighborhood of 8-10 perenra yar" The "ie" maser simp cannot secamplich hia ee, ei level femison sedation has happened ony inthe context of economic collapse or deep depen Til be delving deeper into thove numbers in Chapter 2 but the bottom line what matter here: our economic stem andor planetary yt ee now at war Or more accurately, ou econoany at war with many fom of fe on cath, inching human ie. Whar the climate nests avoid cl lupe isa contraction in humanity eof resources; what out econcnic node demands to avoid collapse sunftered expansion. Only one ofthese te fale cane chged andi ct the laws of are Foranaay ti einenly posable to transform ou economy 20 ha it less esoure-iavensve, and 9 do iin wap tha are oquiable, with the ‘mort vulnenble protected ad the mote responsible bearing the hl of he ‘arden, Low-carbon sector fou econocies can be enccurged to expand aed erat jb il highcaton sectors re encouraged to contact The problem, however, istht hice of economi lasing nd management ‘sent ouside the boundaries for regnine ideology. The only kind of onrason our euent sytem can manage isa brutal ca, in which che ‘noe vulnerable wl ser mst fl,So me ae lee with a sak choc: allow climate drption to change ‘everthing sbout our word or change prety much everthing abou our ‘economy to avoid that ate. But we ned tobe ver lear: because of our decades of colezve denial, no gradual, inremencal options ae now avall- able us Gentle cveaks to che stars quo stoped being a climate option ‘when we superszad che American Dream inthe 990 and then proceeded to take itslobal. Andi no longer just acl who se che ned fora calchange. In 2012, rwenty-one pst winner of the pegs Blo Planet Pise—a group that inches James Hansen, fomer director of NASA’ (Coa Insite for Space Sis, and Gro Harlem Brundtland, free prime miner of Norway—authored a andar report Isat that," the fice ofan absolutely unprecedented emergency society has no choice bar totake dramatic ation tn avert collage ofclation her we wll change out ways and build an enely new kindof loa scien, or they sllbe changed for" ‘That tough for aloe of people in important postions wo accent, nce \tchalenges somthing chat might be even more power than capital, and tha the fect of entie—ofressonablenes, seoumes, splicing the difrence, and generally not gern ovelyexcted about anything ‘This isthe tabi of though that rly rules ou en, fr moe aman the lies who concern themselves with mares of climate pole than among conserva many of whom simply deny the existence ofthe eri, Ci ‘mate change rents a profound challenge to this euious cee be- xu half measures wore cut ie “allof the above ene” progeans as US Presiene Barack Ctama desrites hs approach, ha abou at much chance ofzuccs ara allo the above die, andthe fm detaines imposed by ence requ tha we gt very worked up indeed Br psig clinate change a bet eswern capitalism and he plant {am not saying anything char we don'aleady know. The bate ala underway, but ght now capital i winning hands dows, [wine every time the nee for economic growth is used asthe excuse for puting off climate acon ye agnn, ofr breaking emision reduction commitments aleeay made. Ie wine when Greeks te tld that cei only path ou of economic cristo open up their Beat eas to high-k oll and gas dling wins when Canadians ae wld our only hope of not ending up | wreapecron | 2 se Greco allow cur hora frets ro be fayed so we can secs the semisolid bitumen fom the Albena asad, Lewin when pak in tan- ‘uli slot for dealiton ro make way for yet anther shoring mall. It ‘rine when paren in Being are ld tac sending thelr whecrng st ‘Shoo in polution mask decorated lok ke cue carzca chante is anacoxpabl price for economic progestins everytime we acept that ‘ee have only bad choices avaiable tous austerity or extraction, pong or overs, “The challenge, ten, noe simply that we ned eo end aoc of money sd change lo of polices thar we need to think diferent ad Colyer, for thore change be remoeelypossble. Right 200, dhe tug of mask log, wih ts ethos f domination and fere> competi- thon, spraying almost ll secu efforts o respond to climate change, (Gather competion beween nations has deadlocked U.N. climate ne otions for decades: sich countries dig in cer eels ane deca chat ther once emisios ars ostng ches vaulted potion in he gcbl Irate poorer couneies declare thar they won’ ive up ther ight wo polite as much a ch counties dd on tele way to wealth, even i chat teens deepening a dater that ars the pooe mast all Fo any ofthis to change wodvew wil need 1 eto dhe fore chat ae tire, other avon, and our own neighbor ee a advesas, but ether as farmers in 2 pand projec of mutual reinvention. “That a big ak, Buti gots bgp Boca of our eles delays, we lk have pull of thi maniveranvfnnacon without dla. The Ine ‘ational Energy Agency ware tha if we do not pr our emistons under conta by a mathe srfpng 2017, ou fs fel economy wl Neekin” cetemely dangerous warming. "The energy elated infraeractine then in lace wll generate al the CO, emisions allowed” in cur carbon buds forlimiting warring 02 degrees Clia—"leaving 90 oom for addtional ower pints, fore and other infrmce nls they are eo-abon, ‘shih would be extremely costly” Tls sume, pcbably accurately that {sovernments woul be uniling fore the lure fil rotablepower lane and actors. As Fath Biol, che IEA’ chief economis, Bluey pu ie "The door reach to deyets about lose In 2017 el belo forevee" In short we have reached what ome activists have sare calling‘Decade Zero of the climate rss we either change now ox we le our chance” Alles means thatthe usual ee market asurances—A eechno-ic i ‘round the comer! Dic developnent is jut a phase onthe may clean snvonmen, lok wnineteenh-cenary Londen!—simgly dont ad up. ‘We dont havea century co spare for China an India to move pat tele Dickensian phases Beeaue of our lost decade tie to tu this round ‘now: la irposble? Absolut Isc peasbe without challenging the funda esa ogi of deregulated captalism! Notachance (One ofthe people Imex on this journey and who you wl meetin these ‘rats i Honey Red Clout,» Lakorelucator an etreprenee ho tains Young Native people ro become soar engineer. He ells his cues Chat there ae snes when we mare accept small eps frward—and thre are ‘ther ties when you need to run ikea bfl."® Now is one of those tines when we must run Powe, Not st Energy { wassrack eenty bya mea cle of ort, wittn by Ory Si ene ‘tr of Sie American. Back in 200, he eid a special te on sponses clince change an ike moe sch fos, te arles wee na ‘only focus onshoweasng exciting lowcxbon technologie. Borin 1012 Stsx wrote chat he had overlooked a mach le and moe importa part, ofthe tory—the need wo create the sci and political context in which ‘hese technological shifts sand a chance of placing the all too potable aru qu. “If we are ever to cope wit climate chang in any fndameneal 1 ail solcions cn the social side ace here we mt fc though, ‘The relative ficiency ofthe nexe generation of soar cells is vil by comm ‘This book is abou those radical change on the socal side a well at ‘onthe politcal, ecanomic, ad cultual ides What concen mei es the mechanics of che ransition—the shi fora brown to green energy fom sole ier cars eo mast tans, fom sprawling ext to dense and wale she clits—ehan the power and ideological roadblocks that have > far prevented an ofthese long understood salutions fm aking hold on ty thing clo to the seale required Teseems tome tar ou pol has lot let co do with che mechan lcs of solr power than the politi of hunan power specially whether these canbe a hit in who welsh away from corporations and toward communities, which in tam depends cn whether or ac the great many people who are ging armen dal under our cute eyem can tld determined and diverse enough social force to change he balance of| powet [have alo come to undertand, ove the course of researching this ol, cha che shift wil require thinking the very natu of umaniys power—our right to exact eve more without fing consequences, ut ‘ayecity to bend complex natal ems 1 x will This sa shit chat challenges ac only capital, bu ali the building blocks of mates that preceded mer opal, a mental some ell "extractivsm” Because undemeah lof thi ethereal nth we ave been avoiding: climate change san “inser ad to thelist higs to wor about ext to ath a and tres. ea civiintional wake call. power fal messge—spoken in he language ofS, Moods, doughs, and etne- ‘ons—eling us that we need an ently new economic enlel an e new way oftharing this plane. Telling tha we need o eve. Coming Out of Denial Some sy ther so efor this eanformation; the rs too presing and the clock is ekng. are hate would beeches ro lat thatthe ‘onl solution to his cis ito revolutionise our eon revamp out vorlview from che botom snd anh short of that noe worth bing. There are all ins of meas tt would lower emisions wean. tively hac coud and shouldbe dane right now. But we renting hone rence, ave wel The reason that by fing to gh these big bates ‘hac stand to shou idols deron and change the blanc of ho ‘ok pomer incur societies, context haben slowly created in which any cule sponse to climat change se politcal imposible eget uring cies economic ests (which aly seems eal the Ge)2 | mis cnanees everyting Sothis bok proposes a dfenesetagy: think i, o deep and nove the olga pol fa away fom the sing marke fundamentalism thet, Ins become the great enemy o planetary health If ecan sift the cul ‘ural context even il, then there wl beso breathing room for hone seostle reformist policies chat wil a let get the ampherc carbon numbers moving in che right dzeton. And winning coapions so who lnows? Mabe wich afew years, sme ofthe ideas highlighed a thee ages thc sound impos radical oday—ik a ase incon forall ota ‘ewrting of trade ln or rea ecogrsien ofthe ght of figenos people to protect huge pars ofthe wo from polluting extraction vl stare seem resonable even extent. For a qurer ofa century, we have red the approach of polite ince ‘mena change, attempting m bend che pascal neds ofthe lane to our ‘economic models need for constanc goth and new prfeakngcppor- ‘unites. The rents have been drow, eving sal na great del more danger than when the experiment began. ‘Ther ar, of coure, no antes tata moe este proach wll be anymore succesful—shough there rat wl be explored later on, his terial precedents chat are ground for hope. The ert that eis the bards ook Ihave ever write, pecs because che esearch ha ed me ‘osearch out uch radia spores. have ne doe oftheir neces, at "question thes pola fesbiley every ay, epeilygven tht climate change atu on ich tight and unforgiving ewe Tes been aharder book to wrt fr personal reson 0 What gets me most ae not the wary slentie ais about melting dais, the ones I used to avoid [the Boks | read to my two-year Looking fora Moses one of his faves. es about a banc of Eds that relly eal relly wat sea moose. Tey search hich and low—theough foc, swum, in brambly buses and ups mount, fot“ lng eae, buy nosed raehy anced acne” The jake thi thee ae moose hi ing on each page. Inthe end, the animale ll come out of hiding a he ‘static kid proclaim: “Weve never evs senso many eos!” (On about the seveny threading, sudenly hit me: he might never ‘nvaopucrion [27 see ote [red to hold ie together I went back ro my computer and ‘began write about my mein northern Albert, snd country, where neta ofthe Beaver Lake Cree Nation sldmeabouthow the mos had Changel-one woman dere ling a moose ona huntiog wp only © fd tha the des had lead tamed ren. heard a lo about range ie ‘non oo, which locals asuned ha wo do withthe animals drinking ware ‘contaminated by tar sands toxin. But msl heard about how the moose ‘ese simp gone ‘And no jt n Alberta. 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