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This Changes Everything By Naomi Klein
2015-02-08 03:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dawn: THIS Changes Everything is an accessible, powerful, and timely contribution to the public discourse on climate change that deserves a wide readership, particularly amongst a younger reading audience (teachers and professors: take note). In her latest book, Toronto activist and journalist Naomi Klein takes her critique of capitalism -- a theme that carries over from her earlier and justifiably popular No Logo (1999) and The Shock Doctrine (2007) -- to illustrate how governments, the corporate machinery,...
Naomi Sarna Carves Gems Into Jewels
2015-01-08 04:16:33| Jewelry - Topix.net
I'm a one-time daily newspaper reporter who now writes about high-end jewelry, the finest timepieces, luxury and fashion. It seems remarkable when looking back, but, at the same time, it feels quite normal.
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Book Review: Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything
2014-11-26 23:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: "There is a huge mismatch between the magnitude of the challenge and the response we heard here today," Graca Machel, Nelson Mandela's widow, told a summit to discuss climate change in New York this year. "The scale is much more than we have achieved." This mismatch, which grows ever more disproportionate year after year, raises questions both about our future and about our character. What explains our collective failure on climate change? Why is it that instead of dealing with the problem, all...
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Does Changing Everything Need Everyone? Thoughts on Naomi Kleins new climate change book
2014-10-11 17:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
COIN: This week COIN hosted Naomi Klein one of the most influential leftwing voices of our time in Oxford as she launched her new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate. Having read the book, and listened to her speak, I offer here some personal reflections on why I found the ambition of the book (to radically curb the excesses of extractivist growth-based capitalism) compelling, but the means by which these ends could be achieved disappointingly lacking in inspiration. Klein...
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Naomi Klein says climate activists get comfortable attacking capitalism
2014-10-09 20:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Naomi Klein the most visible and influential figure on the American left, as The New Yorker puts it dropped by the Grist office to chat with David Roberts about her new book. They kicked things off by discussing its provocative title: This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate.
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