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Naomi Klein

Profession : Journalist

Birth : May 8, 1970

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!

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I was the rebel in our family and a child of the eighties. That meant going to the mall.

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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!'

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It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible.

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You've got the Trump water and Trump Steaks and Trump's very so-called dodgy university. And so many of the towers, the Trump towers around the world, the Trump resorts around the world, those are not owned by the Trump Organization.

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

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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.

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There are things that government can do to incentivize the free market to do a better job, yes. But is that a replacement for getting in the way, actively, of the fossil fuel industry and preventing them from destroying our chances of a future on a livable planet? It's not a replacement.

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I've been trying to pinpoint what keeps drawing me back to the Gulf of Mexico, because I'm Canadian, and I can draw no ancestral ties.

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If there is one thing BP's 'watery improv act' made clear, it is that, as a culture, we have become far too willing to gamble with things that are precious and irreplaceable, and to do so without a back-up plan, without an exit strategy.

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A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made with the last one. In a way, that is the story of the settling of the Americas, the supposedly inexhaustible frontier to which Europeans escaped.

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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.

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

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The divestment movement is a start at challenging the excesses of capitalism. It's working to delegitimize fossil fuels and showing that they're just as unethical as profits from the tobacco industry.

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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.

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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.

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