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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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1 posted on 08/24/2015 9:04:08 PM PDT by Beave Meister
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To: Beave Meister

Is this the idiot working with the pope now on his climate change meme?


2 posted on 08/24/2015 9:06:14 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: Beave Meister
Naomi Klein admits global warming is not about science but destroying capitalism

Not to mention: how to bilk the public of billions.

3 posted on 08/24/2015 9:07:16 PM PDT by doc1019 (Out of my mind ... back in 5)
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To: headstamp 2

Is this the idiot working with the pope now on his climate change meme?

Well climate change is a religion for these people.


4 posted on 08/24/2015 9:09:31 PM PDT by freedom6178
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To: doc1019
global warming is not about science but destroying capitalism

And destroying science - they are halfway there!

5 posted on 08/24/2015 9:09:50 PM PDT by DaveyB (Live free or die!)
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To: Beave Meister

Don’t know who the hell she is but she’s right. “Climate change” is about the destruction of the United States, the destruction of freedom and ending capitalism. Anyone who believes differently needs to get off the drugs and try to focus.


6 posted on 08/24/2015 9:10:27 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Cecil the Lion says, Stop the Slaughter of the Baby Humans!!!)
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7 posted on 08/24/2015 9:12:26 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
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To: doc1019

Yep, there are a lot of demo-cronies and uniparty hacks just itching to sidle up to the public trough with some kind of green perpetual motion scheme, while the gettin’s still good.


8 posted on 08/24/2015 9:13:52 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Beave Meister

9 posted on 08/24/2015 9:16:38 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: Beave Meister

Bump.


10 posted on 08/24/2015 9:17:43 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: doc1019

> Naomi Klein admits global warming is not about science but destroying capitalism
Not to mention: how to bilk the public of billions.

Which makes them hypocrites because it turns THEM into fat capitalist pigs


11 posted on 08/24/2015 9:19:53 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Beave Meister
Right...smash capitalism to put in place communism with its caring attitudes. Klein and her ilk "know how to get it right the next time."

When the Berlin Wall came down and the Iron Curtain was finally lifted to expose the inner workings of communism to Western eyes, one of the more shocking discoveries was the nightmarish scale of environmental destruction. The statistics for East Germany alone tell a horrific tale: at the time of its reunification with West Germany an estimated 42 percent of moving water and 24 percent of still waters were so polluted that they could not be used to process drinking water, almost half of the country’s lakes were considered dead or dying and unable to sustain fish or other forms of life, and only one-third of industrial sewage along with half of domestic sewage received treatment.

An estimated 44 percent of East German forests were damaged by acid rain — little surprise given that the country produced proportionally more sulphur dioxide, carbon dioxide, and coal dust than any other in the world. In some areas of East Germany the level of air pollution was between eight and twelve times greater than that found in West Germany, and 40 percent of East Germany’s population lived in conditions that would have justified a smog warning across the border. Only one power station in East Germany had the necessary equipment to clean sulphur from emissions.


12 posted on 08/24/2015 9:21:15 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: headstamp 2
"Is this the idiot working with the pope now on his climate change meme?"

Yes. A shame too because she's not THAT bad looking. Maybe a tad bit of resemblance to a possum...


13 posted on 08/24/2015 9:26:41 PM PDT by moovova
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To: Beave Meister

We already knew that, Naomi.


14 posted on 08/24/2015 9:39:58 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: moovova

Leni Riefenstahl was pretty good looking too, but she contributed to the Holocaust.


15 posted on 08/24/2015 9:43:55 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Beave Meister

” motivate us to give up our way of life”’ HER FIRST; plane dely, I haven’t been aboard an aircraft since the early 80’s.


16 posted on 08/24/2015 9:58:25 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: freedom6178

Typical cult. The leaders get money and power and the flock thinks it’s going away on the UFO.


17 posted on 08/24/2015 10:02:32 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Beave Meister

Jane Fonda sounds climate change alarm in Toronto
The Star ^ | July 4, 2015 | Christopher Reynolds

"The climate change problem is the issue of our civilization. It will affect everything about our lives if we don’t do something about it," she [Jane Fonda] says.
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The environment is suffering damage that could be irreversible — global warming, the greenhouse effect, the melting of the polar ice caps, the rising sea level, hurricanes — with terrible social occurrences that will shake life on this planet.”

“I believe this idea has a strong connection with reality. I don’t think we have much time. Fidel Castro said in one of his speeches I read not so long ago, ‘tomorrow could be too late, let’s do now what we need to do’.”

I believe it is time that we take up with courage and clarity a political, social, collective and ideological offensive across the world — a real offensive that permits us to move progressively, over the next years, the next decades, leaving behind the perverse, destructive, destroyer, capitalist model and go forward in constructing the socialist model to avoid barbarism and beyond that the annihilation of life on this planet.”

—Hugo Chavez, at the 16th World Festival of Youth and Students, held in Caracas on August 8-15, 2005

Hugo Chavez - Speech Delivered at the 16th World Youth Festiva
http://mltoday.com/hugo-chavez-speech-delivered-at-the-16th-world-youth-festiva

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Bin Laden blasts US for climate change

CAIRO – Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has called for the world to boycott American goods and the U.S. dollar, blaming the United States and other industrialized countries for global warming, according to a new audiotape released Friday.

In the tape, broadcast in part on Al-Jazeera television, bin Laden warned of the dangers of climate change and says that the way to stop it is to bring “the wheels of the American economy” to a halt.

Bin Laden blasts US for climate change
http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/bin-laden-blasts-us-for-climate-change/

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Charles Manson, the notorious cult leader, has broken a 20-year silence in an interview from his prison cell to warn the world of an impending apocalypse due to global warming.

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Everyone’s God and if we don’t wake up to that there’s going to be no weather because our polar caps are melting because we’re doing bad things to the atmosphere,” he said.

The automobiles and fossil fuels are destroying the atmosphere and we won’t have air to breathe.

Charles Manson breaks silence to warn of global warming
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8460868/Charles-Manson-breaks-silence-to-warn-of-global-warming.html

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Here's Hanoi Jane remarking on the agenda that Obama refers to as (quote)
"The fundamental transformation of the United States of America"...

November 22, 1970 -- During a fund-raising tour for GI deserters, Vietnam Veterans Against the War and the Black Panthers, Jane Fonda is quoted in the Detroit Free Press as telling a University of Michigan audience:

"I would think that if you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would someday become communist," and "The peace proposal of the Viet Cong is the only honorable, just, possible way to achieve peace in Vietnam."
http://www.wintersoldier.com/index.php?topic=Timeline
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Fonda made the following statement at the University of Texas:
"We've got to establish a Socialist economic structure that will limit private profit-oriented businesses. Whether the transition is peaceful depends on the way our present governmental leaders react. We must commit our lives to this transition ...... We should be very proud of our new breed of soldier. It's not organized but it's mutiny, and they have every right." --Karen Elliott Dallas Morning News December 11, 1971

From 1972: "I am not a do-gooder, I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman."


18 posted on 08/24/2015 11:10:54 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Beave Meister

Since you are trying to limit CO2, you are actually at war with plants.


19 posted on 08/25/2015 12:04:55 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (The use of the name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Beave Meister

When Naomi Klein is standing there in her cardboard shoes, lined up around the block for her monthly roll of toilet paper, perhaps she won’t be so enthusiastically behind communism - forgive the pun.


20 posted on 08/25/2015 2:00:57 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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