I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil…

“I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement.”

Naomi Klein

About This Quote

This interpretation was drafted with AI assistance. It is one reading of the quote, not the author's own explanation.

The fossil‑fuel divestment movement spread unusually quickly, showing how rapidly collective action can mobilize.

In simple terms: Divestment spread fast.

Key Takeaway

Leverage momentum for climate action.

Themes

environment activism speed

Mood

urgent optimistic

Type

political environmental

When to use this quote

university campuses
investment funds
policy advocacy
public protests

Key Concepts

social movements economic pressure

Questions to Reflect On

Why did it spread so quickly?
What can other movements learn?

A Different Perspective

Sustaining long‑term change remains challenging.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

More by Naomi Klein

Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy…

Naomi Klein

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

Naomi Klein

As I explored Trump's inextricable relationship with his commercial brand, and its implications for the future of politics, I began to see why so…

Naomi Klein

It doesn't have the ability to think rationally this economic model. It thinks like a drug addict: 'Where can I get my next fix?'…

Naomi Klein

Fury is an entirely appropriate response to a system that sends young people to kill other young people in a war that never should…

Naomi Klein

Since the 1980s, we've been living in this era, really, of corporate rule, based on this idea that the role of government is to…

Naomi Klein

We live in a society that is powered by fossil fuels, but for the meantime, we're in it. Maybe there's, like, five people living…

Naomi Klein

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

Naomi Klein

Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

Naomi Klein

“It is a civilizational wake-up call. A powerful message—spoken in the language of fires, floods, droughts, and extinctions—telling us that we need an entirely…

Naomi Klein

“You have been negotiating all my life.” So said Canadian college student Anjali Appadurai, as she stared down the assembled government negotiators at the…

Naomi Klein

There's a property in Panama where Trump has collected somewhere around $30 million just from selling his name to this property - it's somewhere…

Naomi Klein

When I went to Australia, I had this feeling, like, 'Wow, this is really a different country.' I think that feeling of genuine foreignness,…

Naomi Klein

I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, 'This is the issue…

Naomi Klein

GLHR... has used Greenpeace-style media antics to draw more public attention to the plight of sweatshop workers than the multimillion - dollar international trade…

Naomi Klein

Explore all 291 Naomi Klein quotes

More Climate quotes

Irish research will contribute to global progress and have the potential to help all countries realise the potential of their land sectors in addressing…

Enda Kenny

In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political.

Cate Blanchett

Windmills and solar cells are carbon-free sources of electricity. But they are costly. If you've been investing in those, give it up. That game…

Kenneth Fisher

Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and…

Jay Griffiths

There are many more traits that the climate deniers share with the creationists and Holocaust deniers and others who distort the truth.

Donald R. Prothero

Some would call me an environmentalist. I don't know why. I reuse the water that falls in my backyard in the winter. I reuse…

Ed Begley, Jr

I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, 'Oh, I agree with you completely…

Vivienne Westwood

Assuming normal winter weather, we currently anticipate the coal markets to remain difficult through 2015; while we always strive to operate a full capacity…

Joe Craft

Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.

Rupert Murdoch

Fossil fuels, including oil, are running out and supplies are getting harder to find. If we do nothing, prices will continue to rise and…

Lucy Powell

Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2 reductions by…

Al Gore

I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it’s their fields…

John F. Kerry

We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River…

Roy Barnes

Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.

Van Jones

All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public sector can…

Ted Nordhaus

Browse all 8,549 Climate quotes

I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil…

About This Quote

Related quotes

More by Naomi Klein

More Climate quotes