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We need a Marshall Plan for the Earth.
— Naomi Klein
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
— Naomi Klein
is the new stability.
— Naomi Klein
What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands.
— Billy Bragg
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.
— Naomi Klein
Hope has never trickled down, it has always sprung up.
— Naomi Klein
ice sheets are melting faster than the models projected,
— Naomi Klein
Democracy isn't the work of the market's invisible hand; it is the work of real hands.
— Naomi Klein
Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.
— Naomi Klein
They deny reality because the implications of that reality are, quite simply, unthinkable.
— Naomi Klein
Energy supply and environmental issues should not be left in the hands of private for-profit interests."14
— Naomi Klein
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.
— Naomi Klein
Droughts and floods create all kinds of business opportunities besides a growing demand for men with guns.
— Naomi Klein
In a world where profit is consistently put before both people and the planet, climate economics has everything to do with ethics and morality.
— Naomi Klein
It wins every time we accept that we have only bad choices available to us: austerity or extraction, poisoning or poverty.
— Naomi Klein
Communication is my thing.
— Naomi Klein
We do not always respond to shocks with regression. Sometimes, in the face of crisis, we grow up - fast.
— Naomi Klein
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.
— Naomi Klein
society has no choice but to take dramatic action to avert a collapse of civilization.
— Naomi Klein
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.
— Naomi Klein
They mean, quite simply, that climate change has become an existential crisis for the human species.
— Naomi Klein
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.
— Naomi Klein
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.
— Naomi Klein
Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
— Naomi Klein
Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.
— Naomi Klein
From Chile to China to Iraq, torture has been a silent partner in the global free-market crusade.
— Naomi Klein
significant cause of rising emissions is not the reproductive behavior of the poor but the consumer behaviors of the rich.
— Naomi Klein
As Upton Sinclair famously observed: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!
— Naomi Klein
It's absolutely not true that we need natural gas, coal or oil - we think it's a myth,
— Naomi Klein
So, if consumers are like roaches, then marketers must forever be dreaming up new concoctions for industrial-strength Raid.
— Naomi Klein
I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.
— Henry Rollins
In order to combat climate change, there's a real need to start localizing our economies
— Naomi Klein
Information is shock resistance. Arm yourself.
— Naomi Klein
Our enslavement to oil has required the repression of millions of Arab people. As they shake off their bonds, so must we.
— Naomi Klein
I am convinced that climate change represents a historic opportunity on an even greater scale.
— Naomi Klein
We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature.
— Naomi Klein
Ask him: History knocked on your door, did you answer?
— Naomi Klein
The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.
— Naomi Klein
It is our predicament that we live in a finite world, and yet we behave as if it were infinite.
— Naomi Klein
Building a livable world isn't rocket science; it's far more complex than that." - Ed Ayres
— Naomi Klein
Good times make bad policy. - Mohammad Sadli, economic adviser to Indonesia's General Suharto2
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We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves. - George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
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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
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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?
— Naomi Klein
We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.
— Naomi Klein
Arctic tern chicks are starving to death for similar reasons: they rely on small fish that have fled for colder waters.
— Naomi Klein
Dens of polar bears are collapsing in the thawing permafrost, which leaves tiny cubs dangerously exposed.25
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People without memory are putty.
— Naomi Klein