Naomi Klein on climate change: 'I thought it best to write about my own raw terror'

A Q&A with the bestselling author before her visits to Melbourne and Sydney

Naomi Klein, the Canadian author, film-maker and social activist, will arrive in Australia this month for a series of events. The author of No Logo and the Shock Doctrine - a self-confessed fan of avocado on toast - will be discussing climate change and capitalism, the key topics in her new bestselling book This Changes Everything. She spoke to Guardian Australia's Oliver Milman.

Oliver Milman: You write in the book that you were a "climate denier", not in that you denied the science but that you just didn't want to engage on the subject. Why did you, and others, do this, do you think?