Quotes About Naomi Klein

So, in a way, Chris Horner was right when he told his fellow Heartlanders that climate change isn't the issue. In fact, it isn't an issue at all. Climate change is a message, one that is telling us that many of Western culture's most cherished ideas are no longer viable.

society has no choice but to take dramatic action to avert a collapse of civilization.

Bast, who has little of the swagger common to so many denialists, is equally honest about the fact he and his colleagues did not become engaged with climate issues because they found flaws in the scientific facts. Rather, they became alarmed about the economic and political implications of those facts and set out to disprove them.

When Hillary Clinton called out identifiable groups at every rally, declaring that she would "stand up" for each of them, it was too tepid an offering to build the ground-swell of support she needed. So while white identity politics pumped up Trump's base, trickle-down identity politics fell flat for his opponent.

changing the earth's climate in ways that will be chaotic and disastrous is easier to accept than the prospect of changing the fundamental, growth-based, profit-seeking logic of capitalism.

Public scarcity in times of unprecedented private wealth is a manufactured crisis, designed to extinguish our dreams before they have a chance to be born.

The goal of Seasteading is for wealthy people to eventually secede into fully independent nation-states, floating in the open ocean—protected from sea-level rise and fully self-sufficient.

What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction in humanity's use of resources; what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion.

Estos ataques organizados contra las instituciones y bienes públicos, siempre después de acontecimientos de carácter catastrófico, declarándolos al mismo tiempo atractivas oportunidades de mercado, reciben un nombre en este libro: «capitalismo del desastre».

We need to build a society around the understanding that well-being for all matters more than economic growth. Only then can we truly move away from climate0changing pollution and climate injustice.

We have the best brand on earth: the Obama brand," she said. "Our possibilities are endless.

Many deniers are quite open about the fact that their distrust of the science grew out of a powerful fear that if climate change is real, the political implications would be catastrophic.

when climate change deniers claim that global warming is a plot to redistribute wealth. It's not (only) because they are paranoid. It's also because they are paying attention.

the global food system now accounts for between 19 and 29 percent of world greenhouse gas emissions.

Honoring the dead begins with telling the truth. And the truth is that there is nothing natural about this disaster [Hurricane Maria]. And if you believe in God, leave her out of this too.

created a performance-based image that was impossible to shame—because his brand was being shameless.

Even climate action at home looks suspiciously like socialism to them; all the calls for high-density affordable housing and brand-new public transit are obviously just ways to give backdoor subsidies to the undeserving poor.

They mean, quite simply, that climate change has become an existential crisis for the human species.

Naomi Klein among others has called the globalisation era 'crony capitalism', revealing itself not as a huge 'free market' but as a system in which politicians hand over public wealth to private players in exchange for political support.

I was having a lot of people ask me to update 'The Shock Doctrine' and add a chapter about Trump.

My sister lives in Oklahoma. And, you know, it is so shocking that James Inhofe, the foremost climate-denying senator, is from the state that is so deeply climate-affected.

I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.

What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands.