In formulating her response, Klein places great emphasis on what she calls “Blockadia” – local action by local activists to prevent destructive development of the environment and obtain a reward for the costs. when that development goes wrong (e.g., BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico). She salutes the success of activists – notably from the “first nations” of her native Canada – who have thwarted some fracking and pipeline projects. Klein is not alone in this; many would applaud him, me among them. But such initiatives do not constitute a coherent political, and even less environmental, program. And the more it tries to extrapolate individual initiatives towards a prospective program, the more the limits of its thinking blur and the more it relies on rhetoric and