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Naomi Klein admits global warming is not about science but destroying capitalism
Green Jihad ^ | 8/19/2015

Posted on 08/24/2015 9:04:08 PM PDT by Beave Meister

The Heartland Institute published a very revealing article about Leftist shock jock Naomi Klein who just published a new anti-capitalst screed entitled This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate. Essentially, Ms. Klein admits that the issue of climate change (formerly known as global warming) is not about science but really about overthrowing capitalism.

“Our economic model is at war with the Earth,” writes Klein. “We cannot change the laws of nature. But we can change our economy. Climate change is our best chance to demand and build a better world.”

The Heartland article goes on to say:

For the author, this completely boring, run-of-the-mill flight delay became a flight of fancy, inspiring her new work. This flight delay, she reasoned, was evidence of climate change. Who cares, she added, if we know that the solar cycles impact the planet, even more than CO2 emissions ever could. Science is not the point, but it makes for a great alibi. “The really inconvenient truth is that it’s not about carbon—it’s about capitalism. The convenient truth is that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better,” she writes.

Another motivational moment for Klein, a single mother, happened when she was reading a children’s book to her son. The story was about a moose. She worried that the young lad would “never seen a moose” in his life. Then, reading another children’s book, this one about bats, she worried that the boy would “never see a bat.” Her overly emotional reactions to everyday things — plane delays, reading bed time stories to junior — are something that she feels must motivate us all to give up our way of life.

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KEYWORDS: capitalism; climatechange; co2; communism; economy; emissions; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; liberals; naomiklein; science; socialism; solarcycles
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To: Beave Meister
I have been nose to nose with both a moose and several bats. Perhaps that is why, as a scientist, I do not share her angst.

There is little humans can do to affect the climate either way.

21 posted on 08/25/2015 2:25:51 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: tumblindice
It isn't perpetual motion they seek, rather a perpetual Notion.

It will take decades to weed the crap out of scientific literature, and it will likely be cited into the next century. In the meantime, we have the STEM-disabled children of a generation of this drivel--so far.

22 posted on 08/25/2015 2:28:30 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Beave Meister

pfl


23 posted on 08/25/2015 2:41:12 AM PDT by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: headstamp 2

Yes and wasn’t this pro abort fem just invited to the Vatican to help plan the NWO takeover planned under the guise of manmade global warming?


24 posted on 08/25/2015 3:55:21 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Beave Meister
our failed economic system

Liberals truly love this expression. They really have not been paying attention. Capitalism has brought about the greatest advances in human history. Makes you wonder about the ability of the left to form rational thought.

25 posted on 08/25/2015 5:11:59 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: doc1019
Not to mention: how to bilk the public of billions.

Make that trillions. To destroy capitalism it takes lots of, well, capital.

26 posted on 08/25/2015 6:47:08 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (CA the sanctuary state for stupid.)
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To: freedom6178

Pope Francis adds ‘secular Jewish feminist’ Naomi Klein to climate team

LAUDATO SI
http://www.cruxnow.com/church/2015/07/01/pope-francis-expands-climate-team-with-addition-of-naomi-klein-secular-jewish-feminist/

By Inés San Martín
Vatican correspondent July 1, 2015

ROME — If proof were needed that politics really does make odd bedfellows, the sight of progressive Canadian activist Naomi Klein on a Vatican platform with the pope’s personal spokesman on Wednesday, joining forces in the push for stronger environmental protection, probably provides it.

“This is an alliance on a specific issue, not a merger,” said Klein, who defines herself as a secular Jewish feminist.

Birds of a feather...


27 posted on 08/25/2015 11:02:04 AM PDT by Dqban22
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To: Beave Meister

They’re watermelons; green on the outside, red on the inside.


28 posted on 08/25/2015 3:14:33 PM PDT by SuziQ
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