"The real surprise, for all involved, is that we are so much more than we have been told we are—that we long for more and in that longing have more company than we ever imagined" (p. 465).

It's so damn refreshing to find a book about climate that is not completely hopeless about the drastic action we must take if we are to survive as a species (for the planet will be fine without us). This Changes Everything furthermore argues that the hopelessness we are exposed to on the daily on social media, on the news, during our conversations with other people, all of whom are convinced there is no way out of capitalism... all the doom and gloom is actually perpetuated by a certain group (mainly, the fossil fuel lobbies). 

On the other hand, of course, it is quite depressing to see that not much has changed since this book was originally published, eight years ago. But Klein speaks of such universal changes that must take place in the neoliberal, deregulated capitalism we have been living in for the past century, that most of its fundamental arguments are as valid now as they originally were. And in fact, she argues, most of us stand to benefit more from these potential changes than anything we might lose.

Of particular note is her raw but hopeful introduction, as well as the chapters on geoengineering, indigenous rights, free market fundamentalism, and extractivism.