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Sep 10, 2019 · The Green New Deal offers a way both to “get clean” and “begin to redress the founding crimes of our nations.”. We spoke about the politics of the climate crisis and the “almost ...
Klein collects her longform writing on the climate crisis—and somehow manages to strike a hopeful note as she calls for a radical commitment to the Green New Deal, the kind of collective mobilization that saved us from the brink in WWII, and might be our only hope now.
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I assume you don’t think that Jonathan Franzen is wrong about how bad the threat of climate change is, but that you disagree with the pessimism, the sense that we’re doomed.
I’ve written a lot about why it is that people on the far right of the political spectrum have to deny the reality of climate change. It’s pretty clear, if you subscribe to a worldview that the market is always right, that people essentially always deserve their fate, that every time people get together to try to do something, terrible things happe...
One of the arguments that Franzen uses, is he argues that human nature itself won’t allow for any sincere climate mobilization. So it’s really funny for you to bring up the fact that we havemobilized society before. One of the essays in On Fire is called “Capitalism Killed Climate Momentum, Not Human Nature.” How much do you see this ideology?
This argument keeps coming up, right? And it keeps coming up in elite liberal publications that are doing some of the best climate coverage in the world. It’s just when it comes to the idea that people might actually be behind the wheel of history that folks get queasy. Whenever human nature is invoked as the reason why we will or won’t do somethin...
Your framework is powerful, because it’s a framework of determination, rather than “optimism,” and I guess someone like Franzen doesn’t have to feel the urgency of that determination, because he’s going to be fine.
Something you talk about in the book, is the way that there’s been a movement away from complete denialism on the right wing, to just a casual acceptance of eco-fascism. You saw in the Christchurch massacre, the shooter’s manifesto referenced that. Do you feel that there’s going to be a lot more of this just sort of automatic flip to to eco-fascism...
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Sep 17, 2019 · THE GREEN NEW DEAL. Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth. By Jeremy Rifkin. If I were a rich man, I’d buy 245 million copies...
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On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal is Naomi Klein's seventh book, published in September 2019 by Simon & Schuster. On Fire is a collection of essays focusing on climate change and the urgent actions needed to preserve the planet. Synopsis
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Sep 17, 2019 · Naomi Klein, Rebecca Lowman (Narrator) 4.18. 5,964 ratings734 reviews. #1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author Naomi Klein makes the case for a Green New Deal in this “keenly argued, well-researched, and impassioned” manifesto (The Washington Post).
Sep 22, 2020 · reviews, news & interviews. Naomi Klein: On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal review - an unapologetic manifesto. Klein’s radical remedy for reversing climate destruction. by James Dowsett Tuesday, 22 September 2020. Klein is the author of 'The Shock Doctrine', 'No Logo', and 'No is Not Enough' Kourosh Keshiri.
