I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all these profiteers descend on Baton Rouge to lobby to get rid of the housing projects and privatise the school system -… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“In New Orleans after Katrina, some of the key players who now surround Trump showed to what lengths they will go to decimate the public sphere and advance the interests of real estate developers, private contractors, and oil companies.” — 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 to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated. — Naomi Klein Copy Share
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?' It doesn't learn wisely. Any kind of measure of natural wisdom would be: you make a mistake, you correct it the next time around. But a drug addict feels terrible... and then says: 'I want more'.… — Naomi Klein Copy Share
Fury is an entirely appropriate response to a system that sends young people to kill other young people in a war that never should have been waged. Yet the American Right is forever trying to pathologise anger as something menacing and abnormal, dismissing war opponents as hateful and, in the latest slur, wild-eyed. This is much harder to do when… — Naomi Klein Copy Share
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 2011 United Nations climate conference in Durban, South Africa. She was not exaggerating. The world’s governments have been talking about preventing climate change for more than two decades; they began negotiating the year that Anjali, then… — Naomi Klein Copy Share
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 between $30 million and $50 million. It would be so easy for a developer to slap on an extra $6 million to a Trump licensing deal and have that be a backdoor bribe. Who are we… — Naomi Klein Copy Share
