If enough of us stop looking away and decide that climate change is a crisis worthy of Marshall Plan levels of response,… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“the solution to global warming is not to fix the world, it is to fix ourselves.” — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement. — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'. — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The more hardcore conservative you are, the more tightly identified you are with defending the interest of capital as an interest of… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“A 2007 Harris poll found that 71 percent of Americans believed that the continued burning of fossil fuels would alter the climate.… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
It is always easier to deny reality than to allow our worldview to be shattered, a fact that was as true of… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The way in which people talk about climate is just so wonky and so abstract and such a boys' club that it… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The growth in emissions is coming from the developing world. So if we are going to get out of this, it's going… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, 'This is… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Change or be changed, right? And what we mean by that is that climate change, if we don't change course, if we… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
As soon as it was clear, in Copenhagen in 2009, that the Senate was blocking Obama from introducing meaningful climate legislation, the… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
And that is what is behind the abrupt rise in climate change denial among hardcore conservatives: they have come to understand that… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“You have been negotiating all my life.” So said Canadian college student Anjali Appadurai, as she stared down the assembled government negotiators… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
And most of all, it means continually drawing connections among these seemingly disparate struggles—asserting, for instance, that the logic that would cut… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Thing that we wanted to do was redefine what a green job was, what a climate job was. We said: "Wait a… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
We have a structural problem because you can simultaneously understand the medium to long-term risks of climate change and also come to… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
We live in this culture of endless extraction and disposal: extraction from the earth, extraction from people's bodies, from communities, as if… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“people with strong “egalitarian” and “communitarian” worldviews (marked by an inclination toward collective action and social justice, concern about inequality, and suspicion… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“so much carbon has been allowed to accumulate in the atmosphere over the past two decades that now our only hope of… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“Fundamentally, the task is to articulate not just an alternative set of policy proposals but an alternative worldview to rival the one… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
We live in a society that is powered by fossil fuels, but for the meantime, we're in it. Maybe there's, like, five… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
My sister lives in Oklahoma. And, you know, it is so shocking that James Inhofe, the foremost climate-denying senator, is from the… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Here in Canada, the people who oppose the tar sands most forcefully are Indigenous people living downstream from the tar sands. They… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
I think I would say that there is absolutely no way to reconcile an austerity agenda with climate action. Our political class… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Fossil fuels are - they're inherently centralized. And you need a lot of infrastructure to get them out, and you need a… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“The climate change denial movement—far from an organic convergence of “skeptical” scientists—is entirely a creature of the ideological network on display here,… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
There are things that government can do to incentivize the free market to do a better job, yes. But is that a… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
So we are left with a stark choice: allow climate disruption to change everything about our world, or change pretty much everything… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
There is a triple layer of jargon when writing about climate change. You have the scientists, who are very cautious now because… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
In a world where profit is consistently put before both people and the planet, climate economics has everything to do with ethics… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
There is plenty of room to make a profit in a zero-carbon economy; but the profit motive is not going to be… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
[On climate change:] What if it's all a hoax and we've created a better world for nothing? — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
I am convinced that climate change represents a historic opportunity on an even greater scale. — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Governments started negotiating towards emission reduction in 1990. That's when the official negotiations started. — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
As soon as you write about climate change, the first attempt to discredit you is, 'Well, you wrote this on a computer,'… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Real climate solutions are ones that steer these interventions to systematically disperse and devolve power and control to the community level, whether… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
So the need for another economic model is urgent, and if the climate justice movement can show that responding to climate change… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America. — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich. — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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