Naomi Klein: 'Let Them Drown: the violence of othering in a warming world'

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In her 2016 Edward W. Said lecture, Naomi Klein examines how Said's ideas of racial hierarchy, including Orientalism, have been the silent partners to climate change since the earliest days of the steam engine, continuing to present day decisions to let entire nations drown and others warm to lethal levels. The lecture looks at how Said’s bold universalist vision might form the basis for a response to climate change grounded in radical inclusion, belonging and restorative justice.
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[@maqexx]

She speaks with large indigenous communities fighting against CANADIAN imperial extraction companies. We accompany what Naomi says with our struggles. She is a spoke person for all people being Good Ancestors Jallalla! Mitakuye Oyasin!

[@corysails]

This should be mandatory viewing for everyone.

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[@life42theuniverse]

Watching the forests run through the shredder is entertaining apparently kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYjLaoGPq8uGqs0 11 million views in a year.

[@meeluumeeloo4318]

When Naomi Klein talks--she slays!

[@jayford968]

this woman is a genius

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[@nevadataylor]

I heard before that Naomi Klein started to be an activist for her children. It reminds me of the quote: ​​​​​​​“We don’t inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children." -- Wendell Barry

[@lesleynoelle7337]

Her new book: "No is Not Enough " is an urgent read with: "Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America" By Nancy MacLean. Please let's try to get everyone inside (and out, who can hear talks) discuss this MAJOR new work. MacLean and Klein discussing this: URGENT!

[@bundleofperceptions1397]

Does anybody know the title of the Canadian document that has been endorsed by 200 organizations? Is it the CCPA document?

[@richardbarr7173]

I believe she is referring to the LEAP Manifesto

[@rickythurman525]

Thank You U.V.

[@dustibecker3950]

Who the heck in the poor most impacted people have the funding and time to actually lead a fight against billionaire oil corporations?

[@Praisethesunson]

Welcome to the class struggle.

[@nevadataylor]

@@Praisethesunson At this point, dont you mean class warfare or even capitalist oligarch dictatorship? Class struggle seems to downplay the severity I would say. Even in Western countries, we are pretty much all wage-slaves to the rich elites now.

[@rickythurman525]

Spring Will You Do Klien!?

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Smut Fangoria my Asp!

[@dwdeclare1965]

How's this for othering? Here's what the mayor of Fort McMurray, Melissa Blake, had to say in 2013 about how global warming will impact people. It's from a piece called Big Mac from walrus.ca. (Keep in mind as you're reading this that the entire population of Fort McMurray, more than 80,000 people, many of whom work in the ecological disaster known as the Alberta tar sands, were forced to evacuate their city due to a raging fire in early May of this year during bone-dry drought conditions with temperatures hotter than Tucson, Arizona.) "Blake doesn’t miss a beat. “I’m a big believer that, yes, the climate is changing. If the climate goes up by two, three, four degrees in the future, we’re lucky to be here in Fort McMurray. We’re lucky not to be in California or BC. They’re going to fall in the ocean. In a place like this, we’re going to survive a lot better.” You mean digging up bitumen is a good thing, because it will make Fort McMurray’s winters milder? With a nervous laugh, she assents: “And that means my real estate becomes a very important asset in the future, so I’m not selling my house anytime soon.”"

[@Praisethesunson]

The climate tigers surely won't eat **my** face. Now if you'll excuse me I have fossil fuel kickbacks to receive.

[@rickythurman525]

1 Hour Klein!

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min 46

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Slay!

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I'm Noah!

[@Johnconno]

T E Lawrence never complained.

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[@georgeleger9293]

It is extremely unfortunate that we must face the one last remaining chance we have left to save what might be left of our civilization and the biosphere. We must make war on global warming; literally all world governments must proclaim an all out war measures legislation. We must do this quickly and effectively. Within the space of two years at most we have to stop all greenhouse emissions, and I mean all; all of industry and all means of transportation must transit to clean energy. Simultaneously we must remove the CO2 that we have dumped into our atmosphere by reinserting it back deep into the ground by erecting millions of air capture sequestration towers on every empty land spaces available along with the planting of the fastest growing trees available. We will plant them in peoples’ yards, in parks, in ditches along highways, on roof tops, along with reforestation of livestock pastures and anywhere else possible. Also simultaneously we must construct vast electric generating solar farms, wind generators on all agricultural lands, thousands of geothermal energy plants, tidal generating installations and any other clean energy projects like dams, nuclear reactors, and zero energy from unacknowledged special access projects if they exist. If you think all of this is ridiculous, I agree that it is. However it is our only chance. The cost of this will be at least 80 trillion dollars. This will be expropriated from the fossil fuel corporations, from their managers and associated industries. They caused the problem and they will pay for it. For more details contact me at [e-mail] I will email you my paper no charge. This movement requires millions of like-minded members if there is any hope of success. WOGW association.

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Do Believe me!

[@beexsmith1]

MonoCulture? MicroClimates? MegaEconomies? 'We The People' tire of redundant rhetoric that stamps journalism for whose agenda, exactly? Rather, by circulating through this world I am learning more about being connected and transparent with authentic people vs. trying to keep up with who's who and who quotes who about what others say regarding global turning points. Is anyone listening to the little people . . . ?

[@daisymillerable]

Thank you!

[@nikzanzev2402]

Make people listen... set something on fire...

[@amaramichaels2064]

The stifling of authentic work, and putting it into the hands of "yes" men has been, and will be, the downfall of our species. Wisdom is reduced, at best, to (probably useless) noise, at worst to damning lies.

[@Johnconno]

@@nikzanzev2402 Myself? Or are you ready for it?

[@rickythurman525]

Feed My Vox I Said You Died!

[@rickythurman525]

Fangoria!

[@CrakenFlux]

There is another excellent reason why not eat meat.. it is a house of horrors, not like the farms of 1800's.. and it really bugs me when people who should know better and should intuit better ignore the issue. The cruelty and sadism involved spills and contaminates the society and culture, how could it not. Maybe she feels she has to be a one issue crusader, and perhaps, in the politics of that, she is right. But one thing begot the other, and the psychopathy of animal utilization eventually came around, as karma always will, to bite us in the ass.

[@dwdeclare1965]

and the way we tolerate the violence and injustice that sentient nonhuman animals must endure by our hands is by othering them.

[@sgordon8123]

Actually eating less meat is great for the carbon problem! Keep promoting your ideas! (cows fart methane - lots of it - which is much worse than CO2 AND meat is bad for our health anyway.

[@jameseames4754]

More meat for the meat eaters rawr!

[@rickythurman525]

I'm A Spawn Toy! Ted Will Pay It$!

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For now Your An Aspen!

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I Cut It Off!

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Tomate We Need Law's

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I Burn Both Way's Jeffery Get My Free Gore Bag!

[@Johnconno]

Was Klein ever in a fight with 6 men calling her a white bastard?

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Robbie deploy!

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What a troll

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Ted Will pay It!

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You Ain't going Ash Wednesday!

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You Eat Chowder!

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Marrow!

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Pink And The Brain!

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I Cut It Off Yogi you believe me?

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Get Out My Ashp...!

[@RichRich1955]

If human population was below 2 billion there would be a possibility of becoming zero carbon. With 7.5 billion and climbing its completely hopeless.

[@Johnconno]

Eugenics, on an industrial scale. Beginning with all Canadians.

[@jameseames4754]

@@Johnconno That's your answer to everything.

[@Johnconno]

@@jameseames4754 It's a start.

[@Praisethesunson]

​@@jameseames4754It's true. We were splitting the check last week and he was short $11. his proposed solution was the eradication of the Canadian population.

[@RichRich1955]

I wonder how far she walked and ate wild edibles along the way?

[@rickythurman525]

Jihad!

[@jezzamy]

Some important and insightful points are made here by Klein. What let's us down is her spiteful shoe-horning of her hatred of Israel into the equation. She just can't help herself I suppose. Never a balanced analysis of the conflict for people like her, all one sided bias and extremely disappointing.

[@alanblanes2876]

It is quite important that the reasons that Israel was founded be explained patiently. Israel and Zionism are NOT the enemy.

[@Praisethesunson]

​@@alanblanes2876How could they be an enemy when they are packing nuclear weapons thanks to western help?

[@Markojaydog]

Lol, less than 40k views since 2016? I guess race hustling isn't very popular on KZbin. If she says the sky is falling, are you people gonna look up?

[@dave-in-nj9393]

What will she stand for when the NATURAL and repetitive cycle of the climate does not follow her direction ? will she recognise that humans have no lasting effect on the planet or that we squandred all of our energy in the wrong things ?

[@jameseames4754]

he asked hopefully?