Hopenhagen? No, thanks: Naomi Klein on COP15

Naomi Klein, author, acivist, and columnist for The Nation, tells The UpTake's Jacob Wheeler what she thinks of Obama's language of hope permeating the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen. In short: The action and funds it would take to make a real difference are not even on the table.

Klein does find hope, however, in the new alliances forming around the environment. Organizations previously focused on international trade and poverty are starting to work on climate change.

Interview by Jacob Wheeler. Produced by Chuck Olsen for The UpTake: http://theuptake.org Distributed by Tubemogul.

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[delducja]

Naomi Klein deserved the Nobel.....

[sparklehouse]

Could not agree more. Hopenhagen is a totally stupid concept

[corylatimer]

Love Naomi Klein, she´s one of a kind.

[duck24x]

Just remember: the so-called Communists in China and the Soviet Union were (and in China, still are) very opposed to environmentalism (and animal rights, which is even more important). This in no-way disparages the magnificent and deep research and analysis of Karl Marx. All gov'ts gravitate towards passing laws against free speech and trivial behavior and easy things that are easy to identify but ignore MASSIVE crimes, all because 99.9% of people (who support those gov'ts) are subhumans.

[duck24x]

Anybody who dares condemn the hard labor and work of true environmentalists before they condemn the MASSIVE money given to CEO salaries, corporate welfare, and unlimited unnecessary military spending deserves to have bleach poured down their throats.

US military isn't even being used to fight for just causes, such as killing the terrorists in Honduras who violently overthrew the gov't.

[duck24x]

Naomi Klein is clearly smarter than 99.99999% of humans on the planet, by 55^55 orders of magnitude. She is in the trenches, fighting to improve the world for everyone. Conservatives owe her and people like her for the air they get to breathe. Frankly, I would take air and water and land away from conservatives and their selfish ideological anti-Marxist cause. Force them to die for their stupid capitalism-at-all-costs cause.

[duck24x]

Nothing will improve for social justice for the poor or the environment until we are ready to openly support civilians to use force to overthrow corporations and governments if necessary. Force the enemy to sacrifice their lives for their stupid selfish causes to pollute and do whatever they want. Fucking coal, oil nuclear are the reasons there are no jobs (including for me) in solar, wind.

[DTRUTHbTOLD]

@TheMotborgare You're kidding right?Can you please show us all your source!!! I bet you can't though.Talking BS on a comment will get you digitally stomped on bruh!!

[TheMotborgare]

The only sollution to climate change is a system change. The only two times the emissions have gone down drastically are during the great depression and the current financial crisis, when the economy is in a degrowth state. To combat climate change we need a degrowth economy focused on needs insteads of profit. That is not combineable with a capitalist economy that requires constant growth and expansion. Socialism is the future.

[BrandyAlex80]

I think Naomi Klein is one of the dumbest people I've ever met, and I've meet a LOT of dummies.

[vinnyflintoff]

people with her sort of politics are bound to be dissapointed. No wonder it sucks to be a liberal purist, I have respect for pragmatic liberals. But for ideologues like her. Hell NO. Thank GOD i'm not like her

[streetcitizen]

she's right about the new convergence between the development/economics dialogue and the climate change campaigns, but there is a danger that we advance so far in our analysis - getting to a really abstruse economic and socio-geopolitical critique - that we leave the mainstream of society a long way behind us, open to the misleading and absurd claims of so-called-sceptics and conspiracy theorists because what we have to offer is seemingly so radical. how do we close this gap?