My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there. Naomi Klein Read Quote
There are things that government can do to incentivize the free market to do a better job, yes. But is that a replacement for getting in the way, actively, of the fossil fuel industry and preventing them from destroying our chances of a future on a livable planet? It’s not a replacement. Naomi Klein Read Quote
I’ve been trying to pinpoint what keeps drawing me back to the Gulf of Mexico, because I’m Canadian, and I can draw no ancestral ties. Naomi Klein Read Quote
A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made with the last one. In a way, that is the story of the settling of the Americas, the supposedly inexhaustible frontier to which Europeans escaped. Naomi Klein Read Quote
Everybody that’s trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics. Naomi Klein Read Quote
I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change. Naomi Klein Read Quote
The divestment movement is a start at challenging the excesses of capitalism. It’s working to delegitimize fossil fuels and showing that they’re just as unethical as profits from the tobacco industry. Naomi Klein Read Quote
When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps. Naomi Klein Read Quote
As soon as you write about climate change, the first attempt to discredit you is, ‘Well, you wrote this on a computer,’ or, ‘You took a plane to this conference.’ So your opinion isn’t valid. Naomi Klein Read Quote
When I went to Australia, I had this feeling, like, ‘Wow, this is really a different country.’ I think that feeling of genuine foreignness, that this is a very different culture, which is increasingly rare in our globalised world. Naomi Klein Read Quote
