Naomi Klein - This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
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- Опубліковано 28 жов 2014
- Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Lecture presented by the Vancouver Institute. Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Naomi Klein is the author of the critically acclaimed #1 international bestsellers, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism and No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies which have each been translated into more than 30 languages. She is a contributing editor for Harper's Magazine, a reporter for Rolling Stone, and a syndicated columnist for The Nation and The Guardian.
Naomi is a member of the board of directors for 350.org, a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. Her new book is This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (September, 2014). This lecture is co-sponsored by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 350.org and Green College.
Naomi inspires me. I will vote for her. Her words remind me of what I had felt as a child, without knowing the picture, not to mention the bigger one.
Remarkable. Unfathomable. If I could have everyone I know see this..(!)
thank you
Would have been good if you guys didn't edit the footage at 21:59. I wanted to heard more of what she was saying at that point. 29:19 too
yeah... what the edit
we can make work for everybody....
ja, she connects the dots.
I would love to see Naomi Klein steer 350.org toward a carbon fee and rebate, rather than its focus on divestment, which is really a shell game. She ends her interview in the Gaurdian in Sept 2013 with " We don't have any more time to waste with these very clever, not working shell games. " and yet, divestment, as it's generally explained by those working on it, is in fact just such a shell game. It does not actually hurt the profits or the capitalization of the fossil fuel industry. It may be very good for movement building. That may be so. But then it can be used to promote a full analysis and to present the carbon fee and rebate, which is the actual way to cut into the profit margin of the fossil fuel industry. Divestment doesn't touch profit margin, and it also doesn't touch the huge amount of the industry that is not publicly traded. The current lull in oil prices is *not* a result of divestment, as all commodities including copper and iron are in an equally big dip right now. We seriously need a real carbon fee and rebate, and it would help greatly if Naomi Klein and 350.org would really get behind it, at least in combination with divestment. Let us carry intellectual honesty all the way home. All the way.
There are more jobs in renewable energy than in coal and nuclear combined. Governments should help people to transition to the new technologies. The business world just needs clarity about energy policy.
how about oil and gas?
@@rig4365 All the fossil fuels are now fossils for fools. If we want to survive, we need to move to renewables and conserve energy as much as we possibly can.
@@tracesprite6078 pretty cool play on words
@@rig4365 Thank you, Rig.
Anybody viewing this in 2024? If so how have you seen things change since this video for better or worse that it talks about?
We need to stop building suburbs here in the States and start building more railways for mass transit so people can stop using cars. Tesla cars are not the answer, or at least not the major answer to transportation pollution.
Derrick Wade People like suburbs. They are going to keep building suburbs.
+George Costanza I'm not a fan they tend to be open areas with few to no trees, all houses look the same, and honestly in some the houses aren't even appealing as they are wayyyyy too big for my taste. That's my opinion though. Its also pretty shirty to see towns move like a slug across the landscape abandoning old portions of town moving to new places. Why does no one see positives in rebuilding or fixing up those old buildings? In all honesty living in houses both new and old structurally speaking most new homes these days are built very cheaply just like how TV's today break while your decade or 2 old CRT TV still works.
@Frack - but we do fix and rebuild old parts of cities. It is called gentrification, and for some reason lefties also hate it.
I'll bet she had intended to say something about Hope
Yes eliminate all cars! And build only Tower cities connected to maglev Trains worldwide, and end wage slavery for equal wealth worldwide.
Go vegan, Naomi!
CUCKOO! CUCKOO!
Sadly, Naomi Klein changes nothing.
Um.
What happened to the art of public speaking?
completely disconnected from reality
Completely CONNECTED to reality actually.
@@comradeweedity1648 you must be one of those fools who keep buying her books...have you gone back to 1970s level consumption as she suggests? Don't worry neither has she😆 it is tough being a multimillionaire 🤣
@@Thaddeus28wtf are you talking about
@@comradeweedity1648 Naomi said we will all need to go back to 1970 consumption levels! Of course she has not (flies first class) have you gone back to 1970 consumption levels?
@@Thaddeus28It's a pretty well known fact that capitalism over-consumes, idk why you are arguing against that.
I've been on board about banning private planes for many many years now. I don't think noami or any rich person will save us.
Capitalism had to go, millionaires and all, private planes and all of it.