Bookmark this thread so that the next time a warmer denies there is any massive political motivation behind the Global Warming circus --- you can point them to this Headlined Book Reviews at CommonDreams.org.. I'm still de-contaminating from visiting the site -- but Whoops -- There it is...
There is less and less that can be denied as HOW the climate science got hijacked and used as a political weapon..
Naomi Klein Ferocious Love and the Climate Fight To Come Common Dreams Breaking News Views for the Progressive Community
Timing matters. The calendar is counting. The clock is ticking. The planet is warming.
But... people are rising.
"Climate change," writes Klein in the new book, released today in the US and Canada, "pits what the planet needs to maintain stability against what our economic model needs to sustains itself. But since that economic model is failing the vast majority of people on the planet on multiple fronts that might not be such a bad thing. Put another way, if there has ever been a moment to advance a plan to heal the planet that also heals our broken economies and our shatter communities, this is it."
What Klein and others have come to call "Blockadia"—the resistance movement that has been blocking pipelines, opposing new extraction projects, and quite willingly putting bodies on the line—is the moral antidote to world leaders who have repeatedly crumbled before the pressures exerted by the fossil fuel industry, the promise of unfettered trade, and the mantra of free marketeers.
"The environmental crisis—if conceived sufficiently broadly—neither trumps nor distracts from our most pressing political and economic causes," she writes, "it supercharges each of them with existential urgency."
There is less and less that can be denied as HOW the climate science got hijacked and used as a political weapon..