Crisis Quotes by Naomi Klein

10 Crisis quotes by Naomi Klein

Klein’s sharp critique highlights systemic roots of emergencies, urging change. This ten‑quote compilation offers a concise, thought‑provoking look at her activist stance.

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A large-scale crisis - whether a terrorist attack or a financial crash - would likely provide the pretext to declare some sort…

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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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We live in an interconnected world, in an interconnected time, and we need holistic solutions. We have a crisis of inequality, and…

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What we have been living for three decades is frontier capitalism, with the frontier constantly shifting location from crisis to crisis, moving…

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Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the…

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I think there is a danger that an environmental crisis can be used in precisely the same way as the terrorist threat…

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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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“So my mind keeps coming back to the question: what is wrong with us? What is really preventing us from putting out…

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If you're biking more and walking more, you're going to be happier and healthier. And you'll probably feel better if you take…

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Our problem is that the climate crisis hatched in our laps at a moment in history when political and social conditions were…

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

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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…

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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…

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

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

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“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…

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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 at the…

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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…

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