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Climate crimes: Naomi Klein on greenwashing big business
2014-09-13 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Soon after reporting on the 2010 BP oil spill, Naomi Klein found she was pregnant and miscarried. Was there a connection? She looks at the 'greenwashing' of big business and its effects Share Tweet this Email Naomi Klein The Guardian, Friday 12 September 2014 Jump to comments (...) Naomi Klein: 'My doctor told me that my hormone levels were too low and that I'd probably miscarry, for the third time. My mind raced back to the...
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Naomi Klein fails to recognise offset challenges
2013-09-26 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Offsetting the practice of paying others to reduce their emissions for you is the world's best first step in tackling collective inaction on climate change. This view contradicts what is often expressed in these pages, most recently by my compatriot Naomi Klein in her criticisms of green groups. But it reflects one simple truth: the Earth's atmosphere is agnostic about who emits. So long as global emissions are capped at the level that science demands, their distribution is irrelevant. The...
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Naomi Klein 'waging ideological war' instead of tackling climate change
2013-09-18 17:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Naomi Klein is more interested in "waging ideological warfare" than tackling climate change, according to one of America's biggest green groups. In a letter to the Guardian responding to the Canadian author's recent comments that big green groups were more damaging than "climate deniers" because of their relationship with big business and lobbying for market-based fixes to global warming, Eric Pooley, senior vice-president for strategy and communications at the Environmental Defence Fund, said...
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Naomi Klein says big green groups are more trouble than climate deniers
2013-09-10 12:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Progressive journalist and activist Naomi Klein made waves a couple of years ago with an article in The Nation arguing that climate activism and current-day capitalism are incompatible. An appropriate response to the massive threat of climate change "is going to require shredding the free-market ideology that has dominated the global economy for more than three decades," she argued. Now, in a new interview with Jason Mark of Earth Island Journal, she lambastes major environmental groups for failing...
Golden Globes Trend Alert! Stunning Statement Earrings on Taylor Swift, Naomi Watts & More
2013-01-14 10:45:33| Apparel - Topix.net
Move over, statement necklace! If the 2013 Golden Globes are any indication, larger than life statement earrings are the new "it" jewelry.
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