“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 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
“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 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
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
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
We need to invest in healthcare, in education, in the sciences. And in so doing, we will tackle one of the most… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
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 Heartland Institute, which people mostly only know in terms of the fact that it hosts these annual conferences of climate change… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
If this really is true, then greed really isn't good, after all. It really isn't the way to maximize the best possible… — 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
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
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
“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 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
“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
If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before 'Sandy', that was kind of the low point in… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
2007, according to a Harris poll, 71 percent of Americans believed that climate change was real, that it was human caused. — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“Very little, however, has been written about how market fundamentalism has, from the very first moments, systematically sabotaged our collective response to… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Ever since Steve Bannon was demoted, and drama started playing out between Bannon and Jared Kushner and the firing of Comey and… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“All around the world, the hard realities of a warming world are crashing up against the brutal logic of austerity, revealing just… — 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
Our problem is that the climate crisis hatched in our laps at a moment in history when political and social conditions were… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“Because, underneath all of this is the real truth we have been avoiding: climate change isn’t an “issue” to add to the… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Because it is such a huge crisis, because it puts us on a firm science-based deadline, it's a once-in-a-century opportunity to build… — 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