The Toronto International Film Festival starts today and one of the documentaries that will be screened is based on the book This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein. The film shares the same title and looks like it carries the same optimistic and clear message: we can change the world and
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Dead Wild Roses: Climate Summit of the America’s – Nice idea.
Well you know it is important when Al Gore is in the house: “Al Gore says there’s a “powerful voice” speaking out about climate change: Mother Nature. Gore, citing “striking” examples of extreme climate-related conditions, said while scientists have long agreed climate change is real, the real environmental challenges facing
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Naomi Klein – This Changes Everything – Interview on CBC’s The National
I think I need to get this book. Filed under: Politics Tagged: Climate Change, Naomi Klein, Social Movements, This Changes Everything
Continue readingPolitical Eh-conomy: A review of Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything
I have another piece up at Ricochet: a review of Naomi Klein’s big book on climate change, This Changes Everything. It’s friendly but critical, looking at what the book’s themes of austerity, the local and extractivism mean for how we build politics against climate change. I’ve included it in full below… Naomi
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In an event organized this month by UK-based COIN (Climate Outreach and Information Network), Naomi Klein speaks about the ideas articulated in her new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate. Klein is introduced by fashion designer and climate activist Dame Vivienne Westwood and begins speaking at the 15
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Heather Mallick Lowers the Boom
Is this blunt enough for you? “The planet is headed for a climate catastrophe, and soon. Make that now. Your reaction will be either a quick calculation as to whether you’ll be able to die in time to skip the whole thing, or an appalled realization that your children are
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Naomi Klein-This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate
The tide is turning as citizens stand up and speak out on a global scale. 360 thousand hit the streets in New York City and thousands more protested in cities throughout the world. At the same time our ignorant neo con PM Steve Harper, the ‘Fearless Defender of the
Continue readingPolitical Eh-conomy: Political Eh-conomy Radio: Arun Gupta on climate catastrophism and building a climate movement
This will be a weekend of global climate activism. Marches and forums are planned around the world, with the largest set for New York City: the three-day Climate Convergence and the People’s Climate March on Sunday expected to draw hundreds of thousands. I spoke with Arun Gupta, co-founder of The Indypendent, author and journalist living in NYC for a critical
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Naomi Klein’s Confession – Is It Yours, Too?
In the run-up to the release of her new book, “This Changes Everything,” Naomi Klein has come clean. For far too long she was in what she describes as a “soft denial” about climate change. Does this sound familiar? “A great many of us engage in this kind of denial.
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