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" 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. "
Naomi Klein
Shocking
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" There is a triple layer of jargon when writing about climate change. You have the scientists, who are very cautious now because of the amount of climate denial. Then you have the U.N. jargon - I had to carry around a glossary of terms. It was like an alphabet soup. "
Naomi Klein
Change
Soup
You
" 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. "
Naomi Klein
Brand
Relationship
Politics
" 2007, according to a Harris poll, 71 percent of Americans believed that climate change was real, that it was human caused. "
Naomi Klein
Human
Change
Climate Change
" 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. "
Naomi Klein
You
Political
Believe
" 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. "
Naomi Klein
Opinion
You
Climate Change
" That is the meaning of the Trump brand - being the boss who is so rich and so powerful he can do whatever he wants. So the way in which he ran for president was to embody that idea as fully as he possibly could with his outrageousness. "
Naomi Klein
Meaning
Powerful
Rich
" Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise. "
Naomi Klein
Among
Compromise
Generation
" The Heartland Institute, which people mostly only know in terms of the fact that it hosts these annual conferences of climate change skeptics or deniers, it's important to know that the Heartland Institute is first and foremost a free market think tank. It's not a scientific organization. "
Naomi Klein
Change
Think
People
" 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
Get
Me
" 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. "
Naomi Klein
Change
World
Political
" Maybe Trump himself will be voted out through impeachment, right? "
Naomi Klein
Out
Will
Trump
" The reason why nothing sticks to Trump - or very little sticks to Trump - is that he created this brand idea that has to do with being the guy who gets away from it. "
Naomi Klein
Away
Guy
Why
" Look at the structure of the Gates Foundation and this idea that, rather than trying to solve these huge global problems through institutions with some kind of democracy and transparency baked into them, we're just going to outsource it to benevolent billionaires. "
Naomi Klein
Look
Democracy
Foundation
" We need to invest in healthcare, in education, in the sciences. And in so doing, we will tackle one of the most intractable problems we face, which is gross wealth inequality. We can't fight climate change without dealing with inequality in our countries and between our countries. "
Naomi Klein
Education
Problems
Change
" My worry about this exclusive focus on Trump - the personality and how all of this is so unprecedented - is that then the solution seems to be, 'Well, we'll just get rid of Trump.' "
Naomi Klein
Worry
Focus
How
" 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. "
Naomi Klein
Way
Never
Turn
" I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, 'This is the issue that beats all other issues,' or, 'Your issue doesn't matter because nothing matters if the earth is fried.' "
Naomi Klein
Think
Saying
Matter
" 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. "
Naomi Klein
Understanding
You
Relationship
" Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear. "
Naomi Klein
Will
Politics
Hope
" The more hardcore conservative you are, the more tightly identified you are with defending the interest of capital as an interest of the system based on hyper-competition, the more likely it is that you vehemently deny climate change. Because if climate change is real, your worldview will come crashing down around you. "
Naomi Klein
Down
You
Real
" I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement. "
Naomi Klein
Never
Seen
Fast
" I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change. "
Naomi Klein
Hopeless
Think
People
" 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. "
Naomi Klein
Community
Home
Place
" The way in which people talk about climate is just so wonky and so abstract and such a boys' club that it makes a lot of women just roll their eyes or feel that they are somehow not qualified. I certainly had to fight that feeling in myself in order to write about it. "
Naomi Klein
Women
Feel
Eyes
" In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged. "
Naomi Klein
Beginning
Strong
People
" There have been presidents with business interests before. But there has never been a fully commercialized global brand as a sitting U.S. president. That is unprecedented. "
Naomi Klein
Business
Brand
Before
" I was having a lot of people ask me to update 'The Shock Doctrine' and add a chapter about Trump. "
Naomi Klein
Me
Shock
Update
" In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you need to have something else. You need to have an added value, and that added value is the identity, the idea behind your brand. "
Naomi Klein
Brand
Easy
Identity
" 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. "
Naomi Klein
Energy
Cheap
Fact
" 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. "
Naomi Klein
Authority
Push
Him