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Naomi Klein: UK fracking trespass law flouts democratic rights
2014-10-07 12:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Ministers rewriting of the law to allow fracking to happen beneath peoples homes without their permission flouts basic democratic rights, according to Naomi Klein. The author and activist said that UK governments changes to trespass laws, to speed up the ability for shale gas companies to frack beneath landowners property, was energising resistance to fracking in Britain. What is animating the anti-fracking movement? Yes, its water. Its also a defence of democracy. The fact the government...
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Naomi Klein or Al Gore? Making sense of contrasting views on climate change
2014-10-05 20:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conversation: Earth is fucked and our insatiable growth economy is to blame. So argues Naomi Klein in her intentionally provocative best-seller This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate. Klein is the latest among an influential network of like-minded authors who have declared that modern society is at war with nature in a battle that threatens the survivial of the human species. Examples include US writer/activist Bill McKibben, Canadian broadcaster David Suzuki, and Australian philosopher Clive...
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Capitalism vs. The Climate: Stephen Colbert Talks To Naomi Klein
2014-09-24 17:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Author Naomi Klein, who just released her new book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, was Stephen Colberts guest on Comedy Centrals The Colbert Report last night, explaining to the straight-man host why capitalism might be good for him personally but not for the Earth. Lobbing her softballs in the form of affable iterations of stock climate denier statements like I dont deny climate change, its happening I just dont know if we need to do anything about it, and I fly over...
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More than Dangerous: Naomi Klein takes on climate deniers
2014-09-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: The disturbing implications of climate change are rarely taken to their logical conclusions in public discussion. Scientists who spend their careers researching the climate system and publishing findings in professional journals are typically far more candid in private than in their scholarly publications. The human-generated surge in greenhouse gas emissions is accelerating, they note, altering the chemistry of the biosphere and, ultimately, the conditions for life. People are not being...
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10.01: Naomi Klein
2014-09-15 22:39:41| Powells Books Events Calendar
The most important book yet from Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine, This Changes Everything (Simon & Schuster) is an explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core "free market" ideology, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems.