All this focus on the little man (activists) versus capitalism also leaves very little room for examination of how societies should change.

But by not addressing the discrepancy between how many people wish to save the environment and yet want to maintain a modern lifestyle (which includes cars and other modern consumption items), the movie leaves a gaping hole in the narrative of why the world looks like it does. And I'm sure the Native American tribes and other activists shown are very much concerned with the environment. I agree with Klein that marginalized people do suffer more. A similar scene takes place in Greece where some environmentalists sit in a forest pouring some liquid or another from an old Coca-Cola (plastic) bottle from their (plastic) cups. Then the next shot shows one of them driving her enormous truck, which I presume is not run on solar power. They know how to respect the earth and take care of it (hello biggest cliché ever.) and so on.

To make it worse Klein introduces the tribe as THE alternative to the evil capitalism and the modern society. I say uninteresting because the only part of the conflict we get to see are some awkward telephone conversations and a short conversation at a parking lot. Instead a rather uninteresting conflict between a Canadian Native American tribe and the local authorities is given a large amount of time. Not a single scientist or researcher is interviewed. capitalism, which leaves little to no room for discussing facts or any deeper insights.

The movie is entirely based on socialism vs. Klein's smooth narrator voice explained how she doesn't really like environmental movies (me neither!), how seeing ice bears looking for ice doesn't really do it for her (a movie that criticizes some clichés, neat!) and in a crescendo she boldly proposes that everything we've thought to be the cause of the climate change is wrong! Then the actual movie begins and Klein's big twist turns out to be: capitalism is to blame. The first 5 minutes or so of this movie really got my hopes up. Given we don't really share a lot of political views (me not being a socialist nor fiercely anti-capitalism) I was looking forward to her take on this subject where I thought we'd have more common ground. I've always looked with some respect to Naomi Klein, although I've never read more than a couple of chapters here and there from her books.

This changes everything book