I was lucky to hear Naomi Klein speak here to an overflow crowd. Mahalo nui. Your post lifted my heart.

Thanks for the trailer.

K&R

Inspiring.

wow.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/28/pope-climate-change-naomi-klein

She is one of the world’s most high-profile social activists and a ferocious critic of 21st-century capitalism. He is one of the pope’s most senior aides and a professor of climate change economics. But this week the secular radical will join forces with the Catholic cardinal in the latest move by Pope Francis to shift the debate on global warming.

Naomi Klein and Cardinal Peter Turkson are to lead a high-level conference on the environment, bringing together churchmen, scientists and activists to debate climate change action. Klein, who campaigns for an overhaul of the global financial system to tackle climate change, told the Observer she was surprised but delighted to receive the invitation from Turkson’s office.

“The fact that they invited me indicates they’re not backing down from the fight. A lot of people have patted the pope on the head, but said he’s wrong on the economics. I think he’s right on the economics,” she said, referring to Pope Francis’s recent publication of an encyclical on the environment.

Release of the document earlier this month thrust the pontiff to the centre of the global debate on climate change, as he berated politicians for creating a system that serves wealthy countries at the expense of the poorest.

SNIP

Like it or not, the Pope is a voice that can't be silenced or ignored and, in this case, he's addressing the most important issue of our time. The deniers are running out of time.

We are way past the tipping point.
I sustain myself with "nature".
Fish, meat, plant. It's getting way harder here, in Michigan to do that.
Still enough but the threat of disease, pollution effecting the plant life.
Makes it hard.
And "nature lovers" are a freaking joke.
I cleaned up 50 pounds of garbage off the Huron River just in one day last week.
I kayak. Take a big bag with me. Fill it up almost every time.

Saw a gut the other day throw a banana skin in the water. I said to him what would you do if I came into your back yard and did that? He responded by saying its natural..
Said back.. I see no monkeys here. No elephants, no animal that would eat your peelings. NotnthT they would anyway...just trying to make a point... He just flipped me off and said its nature.

They have no idea!

Most people are stupid.

Was unaware of the film. I just found my copy of the Shock Doctrine. I met Naomi Klein briefly after a lecture. She signed her book: "For 'Mia', Be Brave!"

most passionate journalist the Left has right now.

But holy shit, the first 3/4 of No Logo is one of the most depressing, almost nauseating things I have ever read. Strictly as a result of the myriad truths she lays out.

Will humanity be "Planet Despoilers" or "Planet Caretakers"?

Can we stop killing millions and harming billions to steal trillions (as Carl Herman says), spreading the "Land of Mordor&quot see the Alberta wastelands and ocean dead zones)?

Can we turn our creativity and efforts away from brutal greed, toward a "Seventh Generation" perspective?

If people say yes, and corporations stay focused on profit opportunities in more wars and declining health and ever shoddier products with ever slicker packaging and ever more sophisticated advertising, do they merit their influence?

Grades in a decade or two, pop-quiz coming up Nov. 2016.