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" 2007, according to a Harris poll, 71 percent of Americans believed that climate change was real, that it was human caused. "
Human
Change
Climate Change
" Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich. "
Rich
Poor
Africa
" After the Pearl Harbor attacks, around 120,000 Japanese Americans were jailed in internment camps. If an attack on U.S. soil were perpetrated by people who were not white and Christian, we can be pretty damn sure that racists would have a field day. "
People
Damn
Christian
" A large-scale crisis - whether a terrorist attack or a financial crash - would likely provide the pretext to declare some sort of state of exception or emergency, where the usual rules no longer apply. "
Attack
Financial
Rules
" Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise. "
Among
Compromise
Generation
" A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made with the last one. In a way, that is the story of the settling of the Americas, the supposedly inexhaustible frontier to which Europeans escaped. "
Way
Bubble
Fix
" As I explored Trump's inextricable relationship with his commercial brand, and its implications for the future of politics, I began to see why so many of the attacks on him have failed to stick - and how we can identify ways of resisting him that will be more effective. "
Brand
Relationship
Politics
" As I was writing 'The Shock Doctrine', I was covering the Iraq War and profiteering from the war, and I started to see these patterns repeat in the aftermath of natural disasters, like the Asian tsunami and then Hurricane Katrina. "
Writing
War
See
" As soon as it was clear, in Copenhagen in 2009, that the Senate was blocking Obama from introducing meaningful climate legislation, the push was for him to use executive authority, use the EPA, use the tool of federal leases, and there was just a refusal to do it. "
Authority
Push
Him
" As soon as you write about climate change, the first attempt to discredit you is, 'Well, you wrote this on a computer,' or, 'You took a plane to this conference.' So your opinion isn't valid. "
Opinion
You
Climate Change
" A state of shock is what results when a gap opens up between events and our initial ability to explain them. When we find ourselves in that position, without a story, without our moorings, a great many people become vulnerable to authority figures telling us to fear one another and relinquish our rights for the greater good. "
Great
Good
Find
" Because the Republicans are never going to turn on Trump so long as he still has his base, and he will continue to have his base so long as this idea that he is standing up for workers, it remains intact. And the only way that that gets eroded is if it isn't just about Russia all the time, but is also about those economic betrayals. "
Way
Never
Turn
" Before I had Toma, I was one of those people who had no interest in other people's kids. I was. 'Don't hand me that baby!' "
Baby
People
Hand
" Brands like Starbucks came along and talked about their brand as itself being a community, the idea that Starbucks is what they like to call a 'third place,' which is not their idea; it's the idea of basic citizenry needing a place that is not work, that is not home, where citizens gather. "
Community
Home
Place
" Change or be changed, right? And what we mean by that is that climate change, if we don't change course, if we don't change our political and economic system, is going to change everything about our physical world. "
Change
World
Political
" Even though I believe in mass social movements, I'm uncomfortable in crowds. "
Even
Uncomfortable
Believe
" Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics. "
Done
Money
Politics
" For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism. "
Sea
Racism
Me
" Fossil fuels are - they're inherently centralized. And you need a lot of infrastructure to get them out, and you need a lot of infrastructure to transport it, as Obama was explaining in front of all that pipe, right? Whereas renewable energy is everywhere. "
Need
Right
Energy
" Governments started negotiating towards emission reduction in 1990. That's when the official negotiations started. "
Started
Negotiating
Official
" Here in Canada, the people who oppose the tar sands most forcefully are Indigenous people living downstream from the tar sands. They are not opposing it because of climate change - they are opposing it because it poisons their bodies. "
People
Here
Indigenous People
" He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible. "
Possible
Name
Building
" I am about safety for the people and the planet. "
Planet
Am
People
" I am not saying Russia is not important, but Trump's base is very well defended against that: 'the liberal media is out to get him', 'it's fake news', and all the rest. "
Saying
Rest
News
" I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America. "
I Can
America
You
" I do believe that our ability to jam the Trump brand is somewhat limited. I think we can chip away at it, but ultimately, the way to undermine the Trump brand is a better product in the political marketplace, if you'll forgive the capitalist metaphor. "
You
Political
Believe
" I don't think there could've been a pitch as crass as Trump's 'I can fix America because I'm rich' without that groundwork laid by Davos and the Clinton Global Initiative. "
I Can
Initiative
Think
" I don't think you can understand Trump's relationship to his voters and how he gets away with what he gets away with, without understanding the pact between a lifestyle brand and its consumer base and how that really transformed the global economy in the 1990s. "
Understanding
You
Relationship
" If David Duke got the percentage of the vote that Le Pen got, we would be terrified, as well we should be. "
Should
Would
Pen
" If there is one thing BP's 'watery improv act' made clear, it is that, as a culture, we have become far too willing to gamble with things that are precious and irreplaceable, and to do so without a back-up plan, without an exit strategy. "
Exit
Strategy
Precious
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