Naomi Kleins new book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate is not out yet but if this is what shes says then I agree with everything in it: 1. Band-Aid solutions don’t work. “Only mass social movements can save us now. Because we know where the current system, left unchecked, is headed.” 2. We need to fix ourselves, not fix the world. “The earth is not our prisoner, our patient, our machine, or, indeed, our monster. It is our entire world. And the solution to global warming is not to fix the world, it is to fix ourselves.” 3. We can’t rely on “well-intentioned” corporate funding. “A great many progressives have opted out of the climate change debate in part because they thought that the Big Green groups, flush with philanthropic dollars, had this issue covered. That, it turns out, was a grave mistake.” 4. We need divestment, and reinvestment. “The main power of divestment is not that it financially harms Shell and Chevron in the short term but that it erodes the social license of fossil fuel companies and builds pressure on politicians to introduce across-the-board emission reductions.” 5. Confronting climate change is an opportunity to address other social, economic and political issues. “When climate change deniers claim that global warming is a plot to redistribute wealth, its not (only) because they are paranoid. Its also because they are paying attention.”
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 11:36:43 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015