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What if our governments treated the climate crisis like a real crisis and mobilized the public resources necessary to fight it? How can we organize enough political power to drive this kind of transformative action? A good war? This is the beginning premise of Seth Klein's book. Seth is an adjunct professor of Social Policy with Simon Fraser University and his book covers how we compare what Canada did to meet the desperate challenges ofthe Second World War with how we must rally to deal With the climate emergency. For years' the climate crisis has been met with mostly placid, small-step responses by governments and industry, with little working to slow and certainly very little to reverse the crisis. Klein starts with the pre-war years, likened to our current situation, were governments and the majority of people did not want to commit to being in a war, to the point of avoiding whatever steps were needed to confront reality. A parallel have the first 9 months after declaring war on Germanyreferred-to as.a-vphony war'swhen little -.:.:.was done; the past decades when climate. change is not recognised as an emergency or _ a crisis and the responses .are failing to adequately address the crisis. . ~ The government cif the. day was not pef-,...._. -- - __ ceived as capable of meeting the threat, yet leadership came through with every facet of society engaged: fmance, business, strict limits on profits, the establishment of28 crown corporations to ensure production of