Naomi Klein Quotes

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• Our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction of humanity's use of resources; what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion. Only one of these sets of rules can be changed, and it's not the laws of nature

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  War, Law, Economic Models

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• The task is clear: to create a culture of caretaking in which no one and nowhere is thrown away, in which the inherent value of people and all life is foundational.

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  People, Tasks, Culture

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• Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

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  Hope, Fear, Hate

  "From pots to politics" by Naomi Klein, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2003.

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• We can't leave everything to the free market. In fact, climate change is, I would argue, the greatest single free-market failure. This is what happens when you don't regulate corporations and you allow them to treat the atmosphere as an open sewer.

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  Atmosphere, Climate, Corporations

  "Naomi Klein on Capitalism and Climate Change". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. November 15, 2012.

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• Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.

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  Political, Voting, Democracy

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• Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.

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  Freedom Of Speech, Cacophony, Free Speech

  Naomi Klein (2000). “No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies”, Vintage Canada

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• Hope has never trickled down, it has always sprung up.

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  Sprung Up, Sprung

  Naomi Klein (2010). “No Logo 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.30, Vintage Canada

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• We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature.

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  Letting Go, Nature, Mastery

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• In a world where profit is consistently put before both people and the planet, climate economics has everything to do with ethics and morality.

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  People, Climate, World

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• The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity.

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  Powerful, Nihilism, Delicacy

  "It's greed, not ideology, that rules the White House" by Naomi Klein, www.theguardian.com. December 22, 2003.

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• It is our great collective misfortune that the scientific community made its decisive diagnosis of the climate threat at the precise moment when an elite minority was enjoying more unfettered political, cultural, and intellectual power than at any point since the 1920s.

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  Science, Community, Political

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• We live in this culture of endless extraction and disposal: extraction from the earth, extraction from people's bodies, from communities, as if there's no limit, as if there's no consequence to how we're taking and disposing, and as if it can go on endlessly. We are reaching the breaking point on multiple levels. Communities are breaking, the planet is breaking, people's bodies are breaking. We are taking too much.

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  Point Break, Community, Culture

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• [On climate change:] What if it's all a hoax and we've created a better world for nothing?

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  What If, Climate, World

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• Information is shock resistance. Arm yourself.

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  Arms, Information, Resistance

  "The Shock Doctrine". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• In pragmatic terms, our challenge is less to save the earth from ourselves and more to save ourselves from an earth that, if pushed too far, has ample power to rock, burn, and shake us off completely.

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  Rocks, Challenges, Earth

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• It seems to me that our problem has a lot less to do with the mechanics of solar power than the politics of human power—specifically whether there can be a shift in who wields it, a shift away from corporations and toward communities, which in turn depends on whether or not the great many people who are getting a rotten deal under our current system can build a determined and diverse enough social force to change the balance of power.

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  People, Community, Balance

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't.

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  Peace, Reality, Ideas

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• I am convinced that climate change represents a historic opportunity on an even greater scale.

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  Opportunity, Climate, Historic

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• Indeed the three policy pillars of the neoliberal age-privatization of the public sphere, deregulation of the corporate sector, and the lowering of income and corporate taxes, paid for with cuts to public spending-are each incompatible with many of the actions we must take to bring our emissions to safe levels.

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  Cutting, Age, Income

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• When it comes to paying contractors, the sky is the limit; when it comes to financing the basic functions of the state, the coffers are empty.

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  Sky, Limits, Empty

  Naomi Klein (2010). “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism”, p.517, Macmillan

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• But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.

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  Needs, Denial, Clear

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.

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  Spiritual, Community, Brands

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• So we are left with a stark choice: allow climate disruption to change everything about our world, or change pretty much everything about our economy to avoid that fate. But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.

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  Fate, Our World, Choices

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• It is always easier to deny reality than to allow our worldview to be shattered, a fact that was as true of die-hard Stalinists at the height of the purges as it is of libertarian climate change deniers today.

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  Reality, Today, Facts

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.

  Naomi Klein

  Men, Our World, White

  "It's greed, not ideology, that rules the White House" by Naomi Klein, www.theguardian.com. December 22, 2003.

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