Climate Quotes by Naomi Klein

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

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

— Naomi Klein

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

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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

“the solution to global warming is not to fix the world, it is to fix ourselves.”

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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…

— Naomi Klein

If enough of us stop looking away and decide that climate change is a crisis worthy of Marshall Plan levels of response,…

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Governments started negotiating towards emission reduction in 1990. That's when the official negotiations started.

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The growth in emissions is coming from the developing world. So if we are going to get out of this, it's going…

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I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that…

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Change or be changed, right? And what we mean by that is that climate change, if we don't change course, if we…

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

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So the need for another economic model is urgent, and if the climate justice movement can show that responding to climate change…

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“It requires heavy-duty interventions: sweeping bans on polluting activities, deep subsidies for green alternatives, pricey penalties for violations, new taxes, new public…

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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…

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The way in which people talk about climate is just so wonky and so abstract and such a boys' club that it…

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Thing that we wanted to do was redefine what a green job was, what a climate job was. We said: "Wait a…

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We have a structural problem because you can simultaneously understand the medium to long-term risks of climate change and also come to…

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“Because, underneath all of this is the real truth we have been avoiding: climate change isn’t an “issue” to add to the…

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And most of all, it means continually drawing connections among these seemingly disparate struggles—asserting, for instance, that the logic that would cut…

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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…

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

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And that is what is behind the abrupt rise in climate change denial among hardcore conservatives: they have come to understand that…

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One of the most disturbing ways that climate change is already playing out is through what ecologists call "mismatch" or "mistiming." This…

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“We will need comprehensive policies and programs that make low-carbon choices easy and convenient for everyone. Most of all, these policies need…

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“so much carbon has been allowed to accumulate in the atmosphere over the past two decades that now our only hope of…

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“Latour’s entreaty to “love your monsters” has become a rallying cry in certain green circles, particularly among those most determined to find…

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“Drilling without thinking has of course been Republican party policy since May 2008. With gas prices soaring to unprecedented heights, that's when…

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“Fundamentally, the task is to articulate not just an alternative set of policy proposals but an alternative worldview to rival the one…

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2007, according to a Harris poll, 71 percent of Americans believed that climate change was real, that it was human caused.

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

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As soon as you write about climate change, the first attempt to discredit you is, 'Well, you wrote this on a computer,'…

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The more hardcore conservative you are, the more tightly identified you are with defending the interest of capital as an interest of…

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If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before 'Sandy', that was kind of the low point in…

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“A 2007 Harris poll found that 71 percent of Americans believed that the continued burning of fossil fuels would alter the climate.…

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Real climate solutions are ones that steer these interventions to systematically disperse and devolve power and control to the community level, whether…

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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…

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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…

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There is a triple layer of jargon when writing about climate change. You have the scientists, who are very cautious now because…

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There are things that government can do to incentivize the free market to do a better job, yes. But is that a…

— Naomi Klein