Please note this event starts at 6.45pm, not 7pm as previously advertised. If we don’t end carbon emissions quickly, the future of our planet is in serious jeopardy. On Fire captures the burning urgency of the climate crisis, as well as the energy of a rising political movement demanding change now. We are all sleepwalking toward apocalypse, author and activist Naomi Klein declares in On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal, her new book demanding radical action to save a dying planet. With dispatches from the ghostly Great Barrier Reef, the smoke-choked skies of the Pacific Northwest, post-hurricane Puerto Rico and a Vatican attempting an unprecedented 'ecological conversion,' Klein makes the case that we will rise to the existential challenge of climate change only if we are willing to transform the systems that produced this crisis. Delving into topics ranging from the clash between ecological time and our culture of 'perpetual now,' to rising white supremacy and fortressed borders as a form of 'climate barbarism,' this is a rousing call to action for a planet on the brink. Here is Klein at her most prophetic and philosophical, investigating the climate crisis not only as a profound political challenge but also as a spiritual and imaginative one. Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the international bestseller No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies. On Fire gathers for the first time more than a decade of her impassioned writing from the frontline of climate breakdown, and pairs it with new material on the staggeringly high stakes of what we choose to do next.

In partnership with the University of York Students' Union, University of York Library and the Jaipur Literature Festivalįor more than twenty years Naomi Klein's books have defined our era, chronicling the exploitation of people and the planet and demanding justice.

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