PORT HADLOCK — Cindy Jayne, Jefferson County Climate Action Committee chair, on Tuesday will lead a discussion about the book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Jefferson County Library, 620 Cedar Ave.
The 466-page book — written by Canadian author, social activist and filmmaker Naomi Klein — examines the question of whether climate change can be reversed without a shift from capitalism.
The book was chosen for the monthlong Community Read program, sponsored by The Friends of the Port Townsend Library.
Klein will not be present for the discussion.
In Community Read programs, everyone in Port Townsend and the rest of East Jefferson County is invited to read the book and participate in discussions and activities.
The book is the 2014 winner of the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction.
A discussion on the first 187 pages of the book was held earlier this month.
Tuesday’s program will cover pages 189 through 466.
Klein’s other books, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies and The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, are international best-sellers.
This is the second of a two-part in-depth discussion of the final portion of her book.
Klein, 45, was born in Montreal, Quebec, to a Jewish family who moved to Montreal from the U.S. in 1967 in protest of the Vietnam War.
She is a syndicated columnist for The New York Times, The Nation and The Guardian, a contributing editor for Harper’s Magazine and a reporter for Rolling Stone. She is a member of the board of directors of 350.org, a global climate change movement, a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute and a former Miliband Fellow.
