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Abolition movement, 111
Abram, David, 126–127
Academy Awards, 76
Afghanistan, 162
After the Last Sky (Said), 149
Air quality warnings, 209–210
Al Noor Mosque, Christchurch, New Zealand, 42–45, 48–49
Alberta, Canada, 19, 76–77, 156–157, 159, 160, 170, 200, 215, 218, 228
Algae bloom, 105–106, 109, 243
Alinsky, Saul, 71
Amazon, 204n
American Geophysical Union meeting (2012), 110–111
Anderson, Kevin, 113–117
Anglo-Persian Oil Company, 161
Anthropocentrism, 141
Apophenia, 44
Appalachia, 156
Aquarius (rescue ship), 164n
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 62
Arctic terns, 120
Aridity line, 161–162
Aroneanu, Phil, 102
Aronoff, Kate, 277
Artists, role of, 271, 273, 275–277
Asperger’s syndrome, 9
Atlas Shrugged (Rand), 93
Attawapiskat, Canada, 157
Augustine, Saint, 144
Australia, 3–4, 18–20, 47–48, 163–164, 184, 185, 188, 195–198, 202–205
Ayn Rand Institute, 91
Bachmann, Michele, 72
Bacon, Sir Francis, 59
Bakken oil, 19
Balcombe, England, 118
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, 218
Ban Ki-moon, 139
Bank of America, 101
Banks, Joseph, 196
Barghouti, Omar, 152–153
Bark beetle epidemic, 221
Barton, Joe, 96
Batt, Jim, 278
Benedict XVI, Pope, 141
Berlin Wall, 248
Black carbon, 224
Black Lives Matter, 131
Blake, William, 99
Blockades, 111
Blue-Green Alliance, 282
Boekbinder, Kim, 277
Bonaparte Indian Band, 216
Bonaventura, Saint, 141
Booker, Cory, 30
Bows, Alice, 114–116
Boyd, Ian, 117
BP (British Petroleum), 20, 54–68, 88, 89, 125, 126, 161, 218, 229
Breakthrough Institute, 100
Breivik, Anders, 46–47
British Columbia, 18, 104, 208–214, 216–218, 222–233
British Virgin Islands, 241
British West Indies, 187
Brulle, Robert, 94n
Buen vivir, concept of, 265
Cabot, John, 185
Cáceres, Berta, 159
Calais, France, 163
California, 3, 212, 219, 223, 233
Cameron, James, 110
Canadian Labour Congress, 182
Cancer, 156
“Canticle of the Creatures” (Francis of Assisi), 140
Cap-and-trade schemes, 50, 73, 285, 289
Cape Town, South Africa, 2
Capitalism, 33, 46, 70–72, 77, 88, 90–91, 95, 99, 111, 119, 120, 122, 159, 194, 196, 249–251, 267
Carbon audits, 266
Carbon capture technologies, 24
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, 115
Carbon offset, 152
Carbon taxes, 24, 37, 50, 247, 280
Caribou, 120
Carmichael coal mine, Australia, 198, 202
Carroll County, Maryland, 70
Cartagena, Dalma, 257–258
Carter, Bob, 95
Cartier, Jacques, 185
Caterpillars, 119–120
Catholic Bishops of the Philippines, 143
Catholic Church, 137–148
Cell phones, 126
Center for American Progress, 88
Center for Naval Analyses, 162
Charlevoix, Father, 185
Charlottesville, Virginia, 232
Chemical contamination, 112
China, 21, 37, 80, 85, 115, 123n, 133, 203, 230, 243
Chomsky, Noam, 197
Civil rights movement, 111
Civilian Conservation Corp, 36, 39, 290
Cleveland, Ohio, 83
Climate Accountability Institute, 283
Climate agenda
consumerism/consumption, 81, 85–88, 90, 121–122, 126, 264
corporate regulation, 81, 83–84, 90, 120
economic planning, 81, 82–83, 90
public infrastructure, 81–82, 90
renewable energy and, 22, 80, 81, 84, 89, 102, 130, 160, 176, 179, 199, 201, 255, 266, 281, 284
(see also Green New Deal)
Climate barbarism, 49–53
Climate Central, 219
Climate change
climate justice movement, 17, 27–28, 51, 99, 130, 156, 178, 181, 200, 201, 206, 289
climate refugees, 154–155, 164
emission reduction and, 8, 9, 24, 28, 30, 33, 45–46, 78, 82, 84–86, 107, 113–117, 130, 150, 155, 177, 178, 183, 246, 249, 251, 260, 264, 266, 271, 281, 282, 285
fossil fuels and, 2, 7, 8, 14, 17, 19, 37–39, 51–52, 59, 73, 74n, 76, 78, 82–84, 88–89, 94, 134, 156, 158, 160, 161, 165, 166, 196, 199, 202–203, 241, 244, 247, 251, 260–261, 280
global warming and, 14, 19, 23–24, 70, 72, 74n, 75, 78, 79, 89, 92, 94, 96, 100, 105, 115, 116, 155, 165, 183, 198, 199, 249, 282, 290
greenhouse gas emissions and, 5, 114–115, 126, 133, 181, 223, 270, 283
human migration and, 124–125
“Laudato sì” by Pope Francis and, 137–143, 145–147
Middle East and, 149–153, 161, 162
mismatch/mistiming, 119–121
Rich, Nathaniel on, 243–250
science of, 22–25, 47, 72, 74–76, 78, 89, 91–92, 96, 99, 110–118
shock doctrine, 36
speed of, 123–124
temperatures, 6, 72, 76, 78, 95, 97, 113–114, 150, 165, 183, 198, 209, 220, 221, 224, 260
time frames and, 127–128
(see also Climate agenda)
Climate of Corruption (Bell), 71
ClimateDepot, 71
Clinton, Hillary, 191
Coal, 6, 27, 37, 80, 112, 130, 156, 195, 196, 198, 199, 203–205, 264, 280, 285
Cobalt, 126
Cohen, Leonard, 182
Collective action, 91, 92, 120, 181
College of the Atlantic commencement address, 2015 (Klein), 129–136
Colombia, 66
Colonialism, 20–21, 159, 194, 196, 235
Columbia River, 207
Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy, 80n
Communism, 79
Communitarian worldview, 92
Competitive Enterprise Institute, 71
Conflict Shoreline, The (Weizman), 161
Conservative Party (Canada), 175, 182
Conservative Party (UK), 238n
Consumerism/consumption, 81, 85–88, 90, 121–122, 126, 264
Copenhagen summit of 2, 22, 73
Coral reefs, 18, 25, 154, 194–196
Corporate tax rate, 283
Cox, Liam, 168
Cox, Stan, 75
Crabapple, Molly, 272–273, 277–278
Crenshaw, Kimberlé, 194
Culberson, John, 64
Cultural cognition, 92–93
Cultural values, 102–103
Curry, John, 63
Cyclone force, 41
Cyclone Kenneth, 4
Dakota Access Pipeline, 189
Daly, Herman, 86
Daraa, Syria, 161
Day, Ryan, 216
de Kooning, Willem de, 276
Death of Nature, The (Merchant), 59
DeBeers diamond mine, Canada, 157
DeChristopher, Tim, 101
Deepwater Horizon offshore rig, 54, 60–65, 67, 68, 125, 229
Deforestation, 156, 204, 227n, 228n
Delhi, India, 3
Delingpole, James, 78
Democratic Party (US), 22, 30, 31, 51, 74, 75n, 76, 252, 260, 275
Democratic Republic of the Congo, 126
Democratic socialism, 251
Democratic Socialists of America, 250
Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), Ireland, 238n
Denmark, 251
Deregulation, 85, 192, 248, 249
Desertification, 150
DiEM25, 31
Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, 173
Doctrine of Christian Discovery, 50, 158
Doughnut Economics (Raworth), 265
Drone strikes, 162
Drought, 2, 25, 49, 95, 97, 106n, 108, 124, 161, 162, 165
Dunlap, Riley, 95
Düsseldorf, Germany, 13
Dutch Virgin Islands, 241–242
Earthquakes, 19
Economic planning, 81, 82–83, 90
Economics and Political Economy Research Department, University of Massachusetts–Amherst, 282
Economopoulos, Nikos, 220n
Edward W. Said London Lecture, 2016 (Klein), 149–168
Egalitarian worldview, 92
Eisenberg, Carolyn, 263
El Niño, 221
El Salvador, 49
Electric vehicle, 38
Ellison, Ralph, 276
Emanuel African Methodist Church, Charleston, South Carolina, 42
Emission reduction, 8, 9, 24, 28, 30, 33, 45–46, 78, 82, 84–86, 107, 113–117, 130, 150, 155, 177, 178, 183, 246, 249, 251, 260, 264, 266, 271, 281, 282, 285
Encalade, Byron, 63
End of the Myth, The: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America (Grandin), 186n
Endlessness, story of, 185–190
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 55, 96
Environmental Research Letters, 5
ETC Group, 107
Ethnic conflicts, 125
European Convention on Women’s Rights, 31
European Transport Workers Federation, 282
Evans, Walker, 277
Extinction Rebellion, 21–22
Exxon Valdez oil spill, 57
Family leave, 268
Fareha, Nosrat, 4
Feedback loops, 223–224
FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency), 49, 256
Fiji, 154
Financial crash of 2008, 115, 235
Financial Oversight and Management Board (Puerto Rico), 254
Fishing, 55–57, 64, 65, 68, 187–188
Flannigan, Mike, 221
Floods, 3, 125, 166, 168, 207, 216, 233
Florida State University, 69
Forst, Michael, 203
Fort McMurray, Alberta, 157, 215, 228
Fossil fuels, 2, 7, 8, 14, 17, 19, 22, 37–39, 51–52, 59, 73, 74n, 76, 78, 82–84, 88–89, 94, 134, 156, 158, 160, 161, 165, 166, 196, 199, 202–203, 241, 244, 247, 251, 260–261, 280, 283–286, 289
Fracking operations, 19, 37, 101, 118, 134, 160, 165, 183, 184, 188, 198, 199, 240
“Laudato sì” by, 137–143, 145–147
Francis of Assisi, Saint, 140–141, 144
Free-market climate solutions, 97, 287, 289, 291
Free trade, 84, 85, 94, 96, 98, 192, 249
Free Trade Agreement, 248
Freedom of Information Act, 71
Freilla, Omar, 102
French Caribbean, 242
Garza, Alicia, 131
Gates, Bill, 106
Genetically modified seeds, 97
Geoengineering, 67, 100, 105–109, 116, 230
Geophysical Research Letters, 108
Germany, 35, 37, 130, 180, 184, 234, 263
Gillibrand, Kirsten, 30
Glacier National Park, 208, 233
Global climate models, 110, 117
Global economic crisis, 99
Global warming, 14, 19, 23–24, 70, 72, 74n, 75, 78, 79, 89, 92, 94, 96, 100, 105, 115, 116, 155, 165, 183, 198, 199, 249, 282, 290
Global Witness, 204
Grandin, Greg, 186n
Grantham, Jeremy, 112
Gray, Lucy, 41
Great Barrier Reef, 4, 20, 194–196
Great Depression, 22, 26, 34, 37, 237, 262, 276
Great Transition, 178
Greece, 220n
Green colonialism, 151
Green New Deal, 17, 26–31, 40, 46, 53, 152, 178, 251–252, 259–261, 263–268, 270–275, 277–280
for Europe, 31
Leap Manifesto, 16, 174–183, 185, 187, 211
nine reasons for, 281–291
Ocasio-Cortez/Markey resolution, 30, 36, 259, 263
Green Workers Cooperatives, Bronx, New York, 102
Greenhouse gas emissions, 5, 84, 114–115, 126, 133, 181, 223, 270, 283
Greenland, 112, 118, 120, 220, 224, 243
Greenpeace, 94, 118, 135–136, 182
Grégoire, Sophie, 227
Grenfell Tower catastrophe (UK), 236
Gualcarque River hydroelectric dam, Honduras, 159
Guillen, Rosalinda, 214
Gujaaw, 182
Gulf of Mexico, 20, 54–68, 89, 125
Gulf of Mexico Regional Oil Spill Response Plan (BP), 57
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, 69
Gulf War oil spill, 57
Gun ownership, 15
Haida Gwaii, 105
Hamilton, Clive, 117
Hansen, James, 77, 112, 154, 246
Harden, Monique, 65
Harris, Kamala, 30
Harris poll (2007), 73
Hatfield, Henry D., 275
Hayward, Tony, 55, 58, 60, 62, 63, 68, 125
Hazardous waste sites, 269
Heartland Institute, 77, 80, 87–89, 91, 93–94, 98
Sixth International Conference on Climate Change, 70–73, 78, 79, 81, 83, 91–92, 94, 95, 103
Hebron, 154
Henry, James S., 284
Heritage Foundation, 91
Homeland Security, U.S. Department of, 49
Hopkins, Harry, 276
Hopkins, Katie, 164
Hudson’s Bay Company, 187
Hughes, Terry, 195n
Human rights, 35, 152, 203, 204
Huntsman, John, 76
Hurricane Florence, 256
Hurricane Haiyan, 256
Hurricane Harvey, 69, 207, 215, 219, 233
Hurricane Irma, 207, 215, 233, 234, 256
Hurricane Katrina, 16, 56, 57, 165, 215, 235, 256, 266
Hurricane Maria, 3, 234, 253–258, 266, 267
Hurston, Zora Neale, 276
Hussain, Murtaza, 48–49
Huxley, Thomas, 188
Ice sheets, 107
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), 48
Immigration policies, 47–48, 97, 164n, 181, 202
India, 21, 108, 115, 204–206, 257
Indigenous peoples, 19, 30, 36, 39, 66–67, 90, 111, 118, 143, 151–152, 157–158, 159n, 170, 176, 180, 182, 188–189, 200, 204, 205, 216, 220, 224–226, 250, 251, 265, 266, 291
Indignados (Spain), 239
Industrial agriculture, 156
Industrial Revolution, 195, 242, 270
Innis, Harold, 187–188
Intellectual Ventures, 106
Intercept, The, 277
International Alliance of Catholic Development Agencies, 142
International Fisheries Exhibition, 188
International Monetary Fund (IMF), 49, 90
International Organization for Migration, 163n
International trade, 81, 84–85
Inuit people, 126
Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Crusade Against the New Deal (Phillips-Fein), 275
Iran, 163
Iraq, 21, 161, 162, 167, 172, 197
Iron and Earth, 200
Italian pensioners, 113
Jackson, Wes, 83
Jevons paradox, 86
Jewish National Fund, 151
Job creation, 26, 281–282, 290
Job guarantee, 268–269
John Paul II, Pope, 141
Johnson, Murrawah, 202
Jubilee Debt Campaign, 49
Jungle, The (Sinclair), 262
Kamloops, Canada, 210
Keeter, Scott, 73–74
Kerry, John, 73
Keynes, John Maynard, 90
Keystone XL Pipeline, 76, 101–102, 112, 170
Kim Jong-un, 230
Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline, 225–227, 233
King, Llewellyn, 64
Kirschenmann, Fred, 83
Klaus, Vaclav, 79
Koch Industries, 289
Koonin, Steven, 67
Kretzmann, Stephen, 52
Kyoto Protocol, 85
La Paz, Bolivia, 28
Labour Party Conference, Brighton, England (2017), Klein speech at, 234–242
Labour Party (UK), 32
Lafontaine-Baldwin Lecture, 2016 (Klein), 169–190
Land Institute, Salina, Kansas, 83
Lange, Dorothea, 277
“Laudato sì” (Pope Francis), 137–143, 145–147
Le Guin, Ursula K., 274
Leap Manifesto, 16, 174–183 185, 187, 211
Lenin, Vladimir, 144
Lennox, Zoe Buckley, 135–136
Lewis, Avi, 211, 222, 231, 278
Liberal Party, Canada, 175, 182
Libya, 162
Coast Guard, 164n
migrant camps, 47
Little Ice Age, 159n
Lodgepole Complex fire, 219
Logging, 227n
Lombardi, Federico, 138
Long, Huey, 262
Los Angeles, California, 212, 219, 233
Louisiana, 54–56, 63, 64, 97, 154, 188
Louisiana State University, 68
Maher, Neil, 34
Mali, 162
Manders, Nelke, 164n
Manifest Destiny, 158
Manuel, Arthur, 224–225
Manus island, 163
Market crash of 1929, 115
Markey, Ed, 30, 36, 60, 259, 263
Marshall Plan, 28, 35, 37, 263
Marshall Plan for Planet Earth, 178
Martel, Yann, 182
Marvel, Kate, 39
Maslin, Mark, 159n
Mass shootings, 42–44
May, Theresa, 237
McConnell, Mitch, 62
McCright, Aaron, 95
Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), 164n
Medicare for All, 267
Mediterranean Sea, 163
Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, A (video), 272, 277–279
Methane, 224
#MeToo movement, 266
Mexican Americans, 36
Michaels, Patrick, 71, 94, 95, 96
Midterm elections of 2018 (US), 22, 27
Migrants and refugees, 162–165, 168, 181, 234, 242
Migration patterns, 119
Miranda, Moema de, 144–147
Mississippi River Delta, 56
Modi, Narendra, 230
Mohr, Jean, 149
Momentum movement, 238
Monbiot, George, 265
Monocultures, 83
Morano, Marc, 71–73
Morrison, Dawn, 225
Morrison, Scott, 6
Morton, Timothy, 126
Mosaddegh, Mohammad, 160–161
Mossville, Louisiana, 64
Mountaintop removal coal mining, 156
Mulroney, Brian, 182
Munger Farms, 214–215
Murkowski, Lisa, 61
NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), 248
Naot, Yehudit, 152
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), 110, 112
National Book Foundation Medal, 274
National Health Service (UK), 237
National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), 68
National Wildlife Federation (NWF), 68
Nature Climate Change, 116, 150
Nature’s New Deal (Maher), 34
Navajo Indians, 126
Navarro Llanos, Angélica, 28
Negev Desert, 151
Neo-Nazi right, 93
Neoliberalism, 249, 251, 252, 269
Net-zero carbon emissions, 24, 30, 86, 285
Neves, Katja, 67
New Consensus, 283
New Deal, 22, 26, 31, 33–34, 36, 37, 39, 237, 262, 263, 266, 271, 273–276, 286
New Delhi, India, 212
New Democratic Party (NDP), Canada, 32, 175, 182
New Orleans, Louisiana, 97
New Scientist, 195n
New York City, New York, 2–3, 130
New York Times Magazine, 243–250
Al Noor Mosque massacre in, 42–45, 48–49
offshore oil drilling and, 38
School Strike for Climate in, 40–41
Nilch’i (Holy Wind), 126
Nixon, Rob, 150
No Logo (Klein), 32, 126, 131, 133
Nonviolent direct action, 21
North Carolina, 257
Northern Gas Pipeline, Australia, 198
Norway, 38
Nuclear power, 100, 112, 264, 280
Nuclear weapons, 112
Obama, Barack, 19, 55–56, 62, 64, 71, 73
O’Brien, Matt, 55
Obsessive-compulsive disorder, 9
Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria, 29–30, 36, 259, 263, 272, 273, 277–279, 282–283
Occidental Petroleum, 66
Occupy Wall Street, 77, 101, 102, 111, 239
Ocean acidification, 107, 110, 117
Ocean warming, 5
Offshore oil drilling, 38, 199
Ogimaa Mikana Project, 173
Oil Change International, 52, 199
Oil pipelines, 23, 27, 30, 76, 101–102, 112, 134, 170, 183, 189, 205, 225–227, 233, 266
Oil spills, 20, 54–58, 60–65, 68–69, 125, 126, 156
Open-pit mining, 156
Orientalism (Said), 155
Oslo, Norway, 42
Oxford University, 134
Pacific Islanders, 41, 154, 164
Pacific Northwest, 3, 209, 231
Pakistan, 162
Paradise, California, 223
Parenti, Christian, 283
Paris Climate Agreement, 7, 22, 136, 155, 165, 183, 184, 198, 230
Parkland, Florida school shooting, 15
Parks, Gordon, 277
Patriarchy, 159
Pay equity, 268
Pennsylvania gas fields, 76
People’s Climate March (2014), 22
Perennial crops, 83
Persian Gulf, 57
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, 73–74, 75n
Philippines, 16, 131, 143, 204, 257
Phillips-Fein, Kim, 275
Pied flycatchers, 120
Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, 54–56, 63
Polar ice melt, 154
Pollock, Jackson, 276
Polycultures, 83
Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, 142
Port Augusta, Australia, 4
Portugal, 220
Presidential elections (US)
1936, 275
2004, 73
2012, 76
Prince Edward Island, Canada, 65
Prison labor, 215
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 85
Prosperity Without Growth (Jackson), 87
Public infrastructure, 81–82, 90
Public Works Administration, 34
Puerto Rico, 3, 234–235, 253–258, 267–278
Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA), 254
Quaternary Science Reviews, 159n
Quebec, Canada, 185
Quebec City mosque, 42
Rain forests, 4
Rainforest Action Network, The, 101
Ramirez, Debra, 64
Raworth, Kate, 265
Reagan, Ronald, 40
Realism, new conception of, 81
Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York, 134–135
Reddit, 43
Religion News Service, 139
Renewable energy, 22, 80, 81, 84, 89, 102, 130, 160, 176, 179, 199, 201, 255, 266, 281, 284
Repair, concept of, 269–270
Reparations, 46
Republican Party (US), 61–62, 74–76, 280, 290
Respiratory illnesses, 156
Rich, Nathaniel, 243–250
Rinehart, Steve, 60
Robinson, Cedric, 19–20
Rockefeller family, 134
Rocky Mountain shale, 62
Rocky Mountains, 218
Rogers, Sandra, 3
Romney, Mitt, 76
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 22, 26, 31, 33, 262, 273–276, 279, 286, 290
Ross, Russell Myers, 226
Roy, Arundhati, 197
Ruach (rushing-spirit), 126
Safe Third Country Agreement, 48
Said, Edward, 149–150, 152–155, 160, 167–168
Salish Sea, 212
Salmon, 18
Salvini, Matteo, 48
San Francisco, California, 3
Sancton, Thomas, 246–247
Sao Paulo, Brazil, 212
Saro-Wiwa, 156
Scaife, Richard Mellon, 94
Scamell, Rosie, 138–139
Scheiderman, Jill, 58
Schmitt, Harrison, 71
School Strikes for Climate, 2, 267
New Zealand, 40–41
Schurman, Jason, 228–229
Scotland, 22
Sea level rise, 25, 41, 46, 150, 154, 164, 224
Secwepemc people, 224–225, 233
Arctic drilling rig, 135–136
Shock Doctrine, The (Klein), 98
Siberia, 220
Sila, 126
Silva Ibarra, Honesto, 214
Sinclair, Upton, 262
Smoke, wildfire, 3, 5, 208–215, 218, 219, 222, 223, 229, 231–233
Socialism, 35, 79–80, 263, 290
Soil erosion, 83
Solar eclipse, 232
Solar power, 16–17, 39, 80n, 160, 205–206, 261, 281
Solar radiation management, 230–231
Solomon Islands, 2
Songbird species, 119–120
Soon, Willie, 94
Sopoaga, Enele, 142
South Africa, 220
South African workers, 215–216
South Carolina, 257
South Sudan, 16
South Waziristan, 162
Soviet Union, collapse of, 37, 115, 248, 251, 263
Speth, Gus, 86
Stagflation, 86
Stalinists, 93
Standing Rock Sioux, 30, 189, 205
Stanford University, 134
Stanton, Ed, 55
State, U.S. Department of, 102
Steinbeck, John, 276
Steiner, Rick, 63
Steinmetz, George, 243
Stern, Nicholas, 115
Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, 98
Stockholm International Peace Institute, 284
Stone, Ed, 110
“StratoShield,” 106–107
Student strikes, 1–4, 6–7, 13, 21, 25, 40–42, 44, 52
Sulfur dioxide, 230
Sumas, Washington, 214
Suncor, 218
Sunrise Movement, 22, 23, 27, 29, 51, 267, 271, 278
Sunshine Coast, British Columbia, 104, 208–213, 217, 222–223, 229–231
Super Typhoon Mangkhut, 256
Superstorm Sandy, 3, 134–135, 215, 256, 266
Sydney Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, 2016 (Klein), 191–206
Tar sands extraction, 19, 76–77, 118, 156–157, 159, 160, 170, 188, 200, 228
Taseko Mines, 226
Tasmania, 4
Tax Justice Network (UK), 284
Temperatures, 6, 72, 76, 78, 95, 97, 113–114, 150, 165, 183, 198, 209, 220, 221, 224, 260
Temporary farmworkers, 214–215
Tennessee Valley Authority, 34
Texas, 188
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (Klein), 28, 249
Thomas, Jim, 107
Thunberg, Greta, 7–13, 15–16, 24, 39, 44, 53, 284–285
TransCanada, 218
Transition Town movement, 82
Tree of Life synagogue, Pittsburgh, 42
Tree planting, 26, 39, 150–151
Trenberth, Kevin, 106n
Trudeau, Justin, 7, 19, 48, 158, 183, 224, 226–227
Trudeau, Pierre, 171
Trumbull, Malcolm, 163–164, 198
Trump, Donald, 6, 20, 48, 49, 162–163, 170n, 186n, 191–193, 197, 198, 227, 230, 235–236, 242, 252, 254, 256–257, 259–260
Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Canada, 157, 189
Tsilhqot’in First Nation, 226
Turkson, Peter Kodwo Appiah, 142, 143
Tutu, Desmond, 197
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, 113
Unemployment insurance, 262
Union of Concerned Scientists, 35
United Arab Emirates, 184
United Kingdom, 18, 19, 22, 32, 34–35, 113–115, 117, 160, 166, 168, 234–242
United Nations climate conferences, 11, 16, 22, 89, 107
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 158
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 21
United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 23–25, 27, 28, 30, 31, 33, 37, 138, 155, 246, 260, 282
United Nations Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, 5
United Nations World Meteorological Organization, 23
United States Energy and Employment Report (USEER), 281
United States House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, 106
Uruguay, 251
U’wa people, 66
van Lonn, Hendrik Willem, 276
Vancouver, Canada, 209–210
Vanity Fair, 76
Vanuata island, 2
Varoufakis, Yanic, 254
Vatican, 20, 137–139, 145, 147–148
Venezuela, 251
Victor, Peter, 86
Villaseñor, Alexandria, 7
Walcott, Rinaldo, 193–194
Wales, 22
Walsh, Rodolfo, 253
Wartime mobilizations, 34–35
Waterkeeper Alliance, 65
Wathen, John, 65
Watson, Robert, 5
Wealth of Nations, The (Smith), 196
Weizman, Eyal, 161–162
West Virginia, 188
Wetlands, 39
White supremacy, 42–45, 194, 259
Wildfires, 3–5, 75, 125n, 207–216, 218–228, 232–233
Women’s Marches, 266
Workers’ Compact (Europe), 31
Works Progress Administration, 34, 276
World Conference on the Changing Atmosphere in Toronto (1988), 246
World Economic Summit, Davos, 11, 12
World Trade Organization, 85
Wyoming coalfields, 76
Yale University
Cultural Cognition Project, 92
Program on Climate Change Communication, 74n
Yemen, 162
York University, 86
Young, Neil, 182
YouTube, 43