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Posts Tagged ‘Naomi Klein’

“Connect the dots. Take back the world.”

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , on April 15, 2025 | Leave a Comment »

The horror story unfolding around us continues. A typical day (let’s say, yesterday) may include President Trump (1) again accusing Ukrainian president Zelensky of “starting” a war against Russia (after Trump’s attempted shakedown of that country for its resources, despite the fact that Ukraine gave up its nukes in exchange for security guarantees from the […]

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In search of silver linings

Posted in Manifestos & auguries, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 10, 2016 | 8 Comments »

So, Donald Trump will be president of the United States and both Congress and Senate will be dominated by Republicans. Environmentalists and social justice activists, almost universally, find this idea horrifying. But there are silver linings to be found amidst the wreckage. Let’s explore a few of them.

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The I=PAT of mass murder, and its antithesis — joy

Posted in Cultural politics, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 15, 2016 | Leave a Comment »

Just as I=PAT serves as a handy, if problematic, formula for thinking about the causes of environmental impact, so I think there is a similar formula underlying tragedies like the massacre at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub. It goes something like this: Hate + Technology + Distress = Carnage/Chaos

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Climate movement

Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , , , on September 22, 2014 | 7 Comments »

As I write, Bill McKibben is being interviewed left and right, Tom Ashbrook is interviewing Naomi Klein and pushing her to outline a vision that isn’t capitalism-as-we-know-it, Time magazine is saying this could be the largest march of its kind — which raises the question of what kind it is — and the People’s Climate March is […]

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