Naomi Klein Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• Our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction of humanity's use of resources; what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion. Only one of these sets of rules can be changed, and it's not the laws of nature

  Naomi Klein

  War, Law, Economic Models

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

• And most of all, it means continually drawing connections among these seemingly disparate struggles—asserting, for instance, that the logic that would cut pensions, food stamps, and health care before increasing taxes on the rich is the same logic that would blast the bedrock of the earth to get the last vapors of gas and the last drops of oil before making the shift to renewable energy.

  Naomi Klein

  Struggle, Mean, Cutting

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

• In pragmatic terms, our challenge is less to save the earth from ourselves and more to save ourselves from an earth that, if pushed too far, has ample power to rock, burn, and shake us off completely.

  Naomi Klein

  Rocks, Challenges, Earth

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

• We live in this culture of endless extraction and disposal: extraction from the earth, extraction from people's bodies, from communities, as if there's no limit, as if there's no consequence to how we're taking and disposing, and as if it can go on endlessly. We are reaching the breaking point on multiple levels. Communities are breaking, the planet is breaking, people's bodies are breaking. We are taking too much.

  Naomi Klein

  Point Break, Community, Culture

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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