Articles by Naomi Klein – The Intercept
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Capitalism Killed Our Climate Momentum, Not “Human Nature”
Naomi Klein – The Intercept,
6 Aug 2018
3 Aug 2018 – Nathaniel Rich, in his massive New York Times Magazine article [Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change], argues “human nature” kept “us” from fixing climate change in the 1980s. He’s dead wrong.
→ read full articleHarvey Didn’t Come Out of the Blue – Now Is the Time to Talk about Climate Change
Naomi Klein – The Intercept,
4 Sep 2017
Aug 28 2017 – Now is exactly the time to talk about climate change, and all the other systemic injustices — from racial profiling to economic austerity — that turn disasters like Harvey into human catastrophes. What you will hear very little about is why these kind of unprecedented, record-breaking weather events are happening with such regularity that “record-breaking” has become a meteorological cliché. In other words, you won’t hear much, if any, talk about climate change.
→ read full articleThe Worst of Donald Trump’s Toxic Agenda Is Lying in Wait – A Major U.S. Crisis Will Unleash It
Naomi Klein – The Intercept,
12 Jun 2017
“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” So said Thomas Paine many years ago, neatly summarizing the dream of escaping the past that is at the heart of both the colonial project and the American Dream. The truth, however, is that we do not have this godlike power of reinvention, nor did we ever. We must live with the messes and mistakes we have made, as well as within the limits of what our planet can sustain. But we do have it in our power to change ourselves, to attempt to right past wrongs, and to repair our relationships with one another and with the planet we share. It’s this work that is the bedrock of shock resistance.
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