Goals Quotes by Naomi Klein

9 Goals quotes by Naomi Klein

Klein’s incisive thoughts on ambition are gathered in nine brief statements. This short collection provides a quick glimpse into her analytical style and social consciousness.

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“I love that smell of the emissions.” —Sarah Palin, 20112”

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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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“The goal of Seasteading is for wealthy people to eventually secede into fully independent nation-states, floating in the open ocean—protected from sea-level…

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“Job creation as part of the corporate mission, particularly the creation of fll time, decently paid, stable jobs, appears to have taken…

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“The goal is all-out war on the public sphere and the public interest, whether in the form of antipollution regulations or programs…

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“Encouraging the frenetic and indiscriminate consumption of essentially disposable products can no longer be the system’s goal. Goods must once again be…

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We have not done the things that are necessary to lower emissions because those things fundamentally conflict with deregulated capitalism. ... We…

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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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