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Climate Activist Naomi Klein: ‘We’re Not Even Sure We Deserve to Survive’
newbusters.org ^ | 5/1/2019 | Julia A. Seymour

Posted on 05/05/2019 12:31:10 PM PDT by rktman

Anti-capitalist, and self-proclaimed “rabble-rousing leftist” climate activist Naomi Klein took liberal guilt complexes to a new level at a conference to compel a transformation in climate change media coverage.

Speaking on a panel about the Green New Deal at the Columbia Journalism Review event on April 30, Klein said what was holding people back from taking action on climate was a “sense of doom” and “self-loathing.”

“Having covered this for a really long time, uh, I know that one of the strongest forces we are up against is the sense of doom, inevitability, but also kind of a self-loathing,” Klein said. “Like we’ve been told for so long that all we are are selfish, that all we are are short-term thinkers. We get messages like the huge cover story in the New York Times Magazine that blames the whole thing on human nature.”

She continued, “So I really do think there is a deep feeling of ‘We’re are, we’re not even sure we deserve to survive.’”

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To: rktman

They wonder why there is a skeptical view of the so called science behind all this when the lead proponents of doing something about it are all dyed in the wool totalitarian extremists.


22 posted on 05/05/2019 12:59:12 PM PDT by Long Jon No Silver
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To: rktman

Speak for yourself, crazy-a$$ self-hater!


23 posted on 05/05/2019 1:02:12 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: rktman

She’s more than welcome to line up right behind UT’s Prof. Pianka who teaches his students that killing 90% of the population with Ebola would be a great and wonderful thing. Of course, he hasn’t lined up to be one of the 90% and neither will she.


24 posted on 05/05/2019 1:02:17 PM PDT by bgill (when you badmouth women, you are badmouthing your mama and the good women on FR)
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To: rktman

You have a sense of doom Naomi, I need to wash my truck.


25 posted on 05/05/2019 1:05:07 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: rktman

Maybe they should all kill themselves. For the good of the planet, don’t you know.


26 posted on 05/05/2019 1:11:33 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Being woke means you can be nasty, hateful and use racist slurs yet feel morally superior.)
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To: eyedigress

Leave the hose running will ya?


27 posted on 05/05/2019 1:16:41 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

Then kill yourself Naomi. Make a blood sacrifice of yourself for Earth Mother Gaia.

In fact, convince as many of your watermelon friends as possible to stop burdening the Earth with their existence.


28 posted on 05/05/2019 1:20:28 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: billyboy15
Ahhh yes - acid rain...forgot that one...

The oceans are dead - fish are dead and the algae that gives oxygen to the waters are dying. Thanks, I forgot that liberal horror...

And acid rain also killed off trees and most of the crops... the horror... the horror...

Oh wait....

29 posted on 05/05/2019 1:21:02 PM PDT by GOPJ ("Elites reflexively exempt themselves from the ravages of their own policies." - nathanbedford)
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To: rktman

I’ve heard this a lot lately from the left. Many are hoping the human race ceases to exist as it’s the only way for the earth to survive. I just call’em dead-enders. Personally, I think it has to do with gloom and doom climate change media who would like only themselves, Al Gore and unicorns to survive.


30 posted on 05/05/2019 1:21:08 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: rktman

They should off themselves as a noble sacrifice to the preservation of Mother Earth’s survival.,


31 posted on 05/05/2019 1:21:35 PM PDT by tflabo (Prince of Peace, Lion of Righteousness)
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To: GOPJ

I died from skin cancer because of the hole in the ozone layer.


32 posted on 05/05/2019 1:26:18 PM PDT by Nachoman (Following victory, its best to reload.)
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To: rktman

I would EASILY take my chances with whatever the weather or the climate throws at us over being ruled by a leftist government. It is not even a contest.


33 posted on 05/05/2019 1:37:16 PM PDT by fhayek
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34 posted on 05/05/2019 1:39:02 PM PDT by Long Jon No Silver
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To: rktman

I was told in college in 1973 that we would run out of oil and essential minerals by 1980. also that a new ice age was coming and we would all freeze. The only good thing that would happen if the globull cultists are right is we only have 11-1/2 years of AOC left!


35 posted on 05/05/2019 1:39:17 PM PDT by 2nd Amendment
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To: Nachoman
I died from skin cancer because of the hole in the ozone layer.

Yeah, most of my family died from that too... the ones who survived the acid rain and starvation from over population... Liberals were right. It's no wonder everyone still believes them - they're always right. Chicken little stands in awe of progressive liberals...

36 posted on 05/05/2019 1:41:51 PM PDT by GOPJ ("Elites reflexively exempt themselves from the ravages of their own policies." - nathanbedford)
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To: rktman

No one is forcing her to stay around.


37 posted on 05/05/2019 1:42:43 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( One of President TrumpÂ’s Clinging, Deploreable, Low IQ, Dreg supporters helping to MAGA!))
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To: GOPJ
It’s important to remember the left has been right about almost everything ... like ‘peak oil’... there’s no oil in our world now - and cars are a thing of the distant past... we heat our homes with wood when we can find a downed tree...

Thanks to Hot Hunt for the realities versus the end of humans due to Gorebull Warming BS Predictions.

38 posted on 05/05/2019 1:49:28 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( One of President TrumpÂ’s Clinging, Deploreable, Low IQ, Dreg supporters helping to MAGA!))
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To: rktman

Go ahead and off yourself, no one will miss you.


39 posted on 05/05/2019 1:54:02 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: rktman

The modern-day doomsday cult that is the left wants you to think the sky is falling.


40 posted on 05/05/2019 2:04:48 PM PDT by AmericanCheeseFood (Fox Shadowbans People On Comments)
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