By Naomi Klein
Ebook
Been wanting to read this for awhile now. Glad it finally came up in the cue. Love her stuff and her radio show.
Scarry ass book. Shit.
10.3% "But it wasn’t until James Hansen, then director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, testified before a packed congressional hearing on June 23, 1988, that global warming became the stuff of chat shows and political speeches." Still we dont beleive
11.3% "But there is no question that the trade architecture and the economic ideology embedded within it played a central role in sending emissions into hyperdrive." Good luck getting them to do anytjing that lessens profit.
22% "In practice that means that, despite endless griping, tweeting, flash mobbing, and occupying, we collectively lack many of the tools that built and sustained the transformative movements of the past. Our public institutions are disintegrating, while the institutions of the traditional left—progressive political parties, strong unions, membership-based community service organizations—are fighting for their lives." This is the very argument raised in Putnam's Bowling Alone. Man everything connects yes Mr Forester. Only connect.
27.2% "natural gas—as a supposed solution to climate change, despite mounting evidence that in the coming decades, the methane it releases, particularly through the fracking process, has the potential to help lock us into catastrophic levels of warming."
36.1% So here the discussion is about climate engineering. Specifically a plan to inject particles in to the atmosphere to block the sun and stop global warming. The tales of the Annunaki say that they were here to mine gold to inject into their atmosphere inntheir home planet of Niburu. I found the similarity shocking.
36.5% Here they talk about a Strto Sheil sun blocking device. And i commented The Simpsons did that!
36.8% "During the Cold War, U.S. physicists imagined weakening the nation’s enemies by stealthily manipulating rainfall patterns." The CIA weather machine, that of course doesnt exist.
38.5% Klein tells us that as the situation becomes more dire, we may be convinced to try anything w e think might help us and the rest be damned. "This is how the shock doctrine works: in the desperation of a true crisis all kinds of sensible opposition melts away and all manner of high-risk behaviors seem temporarily acceptable." When it gets to this point we know were in trouble.
38.7% "French sociologist Bruno Latour. His argument is that humanity has failed to learn the lessons of the prototypical cautionary story about playing god: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. According to Latour, Shelley’s real lesson is not, as is commonly understood, “don’t mess with mother nature.” Rather it is, don’t run away from your technological mess-ups, as young Dr. Frankenstein did when he abandoned the monster to which he had given life. Instead, Latour says we must stick around and continue to care for our “monsters” like the deities that we have become. "Love.your monsters!
"Latour’s entreaty to “love your monsters” has become a rallying cry in certain green circles, particularly among those most determined to find climate solutions that adhere to market logic."
Books:
Bruno Latour The god species
Christian Parenti Tropic of Chaos
Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence
The Culture of Narcissism Christopher Lasch
Michael Grunwald The New New Deal,
Raj Patel, Stuffed and Starved
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Blake’s “dark Satanic Mills” more poem than book. Read about this in the Age of Acquiesence too. Everything connects Mr Forester. Only connect.
Mark Isaacs The Undesirables. He wrote about men who had survived wars and treacherous voyages losing all will to live on Nauru,
The Limits to growth: A report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind
Essays
Cool dudes: Cool dudes: The denial of climate change among conservative white
The Billion Dollar Shack by Jack hitt NYT Magazine 2000
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/10/magazine/the-billion-dollar-shack.html
Documentaries:
This book is coming out as a documentary in the fall of 2015
Also check out "The Take" about a group of workers who took over their shuttered auto-parts plant and turned it into a thriving co-op.
Al Gore An Incovenient Truth
A Case for Climate Engineering (Boston Review Books)
by David Keith
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