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" 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. "

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" The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity. "

Naomi Klein

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" Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics. "

" 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. "

" The Trump family's business model is part of a broader shift in corporate structure that has taken place within many brand-based multinationals, one with transformative impacts on culture and the job market, trends that I wrote about in my first book, 'No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies'. "

" If you're biking more and walking more, you're going to be happier and healthier. And you'll probably feel better if you take out less garbage, as most of us feel pretty crappy about that. But I don't think we can mistake those acts for doing what it takes to address a crisis at a global level. "

" Trump would have been unelectable were it not for the groundwork laid by Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, two liberal heroes. "

" 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. "

" I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful. "

" When I went to Australia, I had this feeling, like, 'Wow, this is really a different country.' I think that feeling of genuine foreignness, that this is a very different culture, which is increasingly rare in our globalised world. "

" 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. "

" It's really, really hard to get in rooms with people you don't usually work with and try to find common ground. "

" The Trump Organization is paid millions of dollars by these developers for the privilege of putting the Trump name on those towers. "

" We live in a society that is powered by fossil fuels, but for the meantime, we're in it. Maybe there's, like, five people living in the woods off-grid, but they're spending all their time maintaining that, and they don't have much time left over for anything else. "

" I had maybe watched 'The Apprentice' a couple of times. I didn't know that in later seasons they deported half of their contestants into tents in the backyard. They called it Trump's trailer park. "

" 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!' "

" I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change. "

" My sister lives in Oklahoma. And, you know, it is so shocking that James Inhofe, the foremost climate-denying senator, is from the state that is so deeply climate-affected. "

" The electoral strategy for 2016 was, 'Vote for me; I'm not Trump,' and, 'Trump is dangerous, so get out and vote.' "

Naomi Klein

Dangerous

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" When I feel my blood sugar getting off, I drink a glass of kale juice. It's so disgusting you don't want to eat anything! "

" I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that fact that renewable energy is getting so cheap so fast. "

" 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. "

" Maybe Trump himself will be voted out through impeachment, right? "

" I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America. "

" What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up. "

" I was having a lot of people ask me to update 'The Shock Doctrine' and add a chapter about Trump. "

Naomi Klein

Shock

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" We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other. "

" While everyone is focused on security and civil liberties, Trump's Cabinet of billionaires will try to quietly push through even more extreme measures to enrich themselves and their class, like dismantling Social Security or auctioning off major pieces of government for profit. "

" 2007, according to a Harris poll, 71 percent of Americans believed that climate change was real, that it was human caused. "

" This phrase, 'culture jamming,' was very much in vogue in the 1990s when these superbrands sort of emerged and started kind of projecting their names onto ever more surfaces. "

Naomi Klein

Started

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" 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. "