Naomi Klein Quotes
Top 60 wise famous quotes and sayings by Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Naomi Klein on Wise Famous Quotes.
In short, we have reached what some activists have started calling "Decade Zero" of the climate crisis: we either change now or we lose our chance.29
It's impossible to say how much the decision to use the tsunami as an opportunity for disaster capitalism contributed to the return to civil war.
Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.
Energy supply and environmental issues should not be left in the hands of private for-profit interests."14
In Argentina, urban poverty plummeted from 54.7 percent in 2003 to 6.5 percent in 2011, according to government data collected by the U.N.
Droughts and floods create all kinds of business opportunities besides a growing demand for men with guns.
In a world where profit is consistently put before both people and the planet, climate economics has everything to do with ethics and morality.
It wins every time we accept that we have only bad choices available to us: austerity or extraction, poisoning or poverty.
I think this has been a class war waged by the rich against the poor, and I think that they won. And I think the poor are fighting back.
When it comes to paying contractors, the sky is the limit; when it comes to financing the basic functions of the state, the coffers are empty.
They mean, quite simply, that climate change has become an existential crisis for the human species.
If enough of us stop looking away and decide that climate change is a crisis worthy of Marshall Plan levels of response, then it will become one.
There is plenty of room to make a profit in a zero-carbon economy; but the profit motive is not going to be the midwife for that great transformation.
Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.
We do not always respond to shocks with regression. Sometimes, in the face of crisis, we grow up - fast.
significant cause of rising emissions is not the reproductive behavior of the poor but the consumer behaviors of the rich.
As Upton Sinclair famously observed: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!
So, if consumers are like roaches, then marketers must forever be dreaming up new concoctions for industrial-strength Raid.
Our enslavement to oil has required the repression of millions of Arab people. As they shake off their bonds, so must we.
We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature.
The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.
We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves. - George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
The best thing about the Earth is if you poke holes in it oil and gas comes out." - Republican U.S. Congressman Steve Stockman, 20131
When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?
We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.
Arctic tern chicks are starving to death for similar reasons: they rely on small fish that have fled for colder waters.
Dens of polar bears are collapsing in the thawing permafrost, which leaves tiny cubs dangerously exposed.25