Please note this event starts at 6.45pm, not 7pm as previously advertised.

On Fire captures the burning urgency of the climate crisis, as well as the energy of a rising political movement demanding change now. 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. 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. Naomi Klein discusses her book, 'On Fire', at a Politics and Prose event in Washington, DC.1 international and New York Times bestselling author Naomi Klein. An instant bestseller, On Fire shows 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.

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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