The Radical Leap
Political organizers are aware of “wedge issues” that divide us and “web issues” that bring us together. What could be more unifying than saving the planet? The Earth is heating up. Polar ice caps are melting. Sea levels are rising. April was the 12th consecutive hottest month on record. The December 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement, doesn’t rise to the challenge. Clearly, it is going to take mobilization from below to radically change the fossilized attitudes of the fossil fuel industry and the politicians that they bankroll. Broad coalitions of diverse groups seek to do just that. Climate activism engages a new intersectional politics. From Pope Francis to the Dalai Lama, workers and trade unionists, indigenous peoples, and many others are speaking with one voice on the issue like never before.
Speaker
Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein is a professor in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia, the founding co-director of UBC’s Centre for Climate Justice, and Honorary Professor of Media and Climate at Rutgers University. Her writing has appeared in leading publications around the world, and she is a columnist for The Guardian. The New York Times says, “She is that nearly extinct breed of activist: one who never stops questioning orthodoxies and interrogating her own beliefs.” She is the award-winning author of such bestsellers as This Changes Everything, The Shock Doctrine, No Logo, No Is Not Enough, and On Fire. Her latest book is the highly acclaimed Doppelganger.
Elaine Bolton –
Thank you for broadcasting Naomi’s lecture. I am a better person, for listening. I wish she was going to be the new president.
Please don’t stop, thinking, speaking, and problem solving, Naomi. The world needs the light that you shine on these immediate situational dangers. I will definitely be spreading the word about The LEAP program.
Unfortunately there was a glitch in the broadcasting, during the solution portion of the program. I would love to listen to that part, and indeed the whole lecture, again.
Thank you all for the work you do, and the voices you share.
This was an excellent and very important program. 5 stars, from me.
Elaine Bolton
Dahlia Cummings –
This talk is real, empowering, informative, practical, insightful and broadly interconnecting the many important movements of our time. A good one to pass on to everyone who wants humanity to thrive on planet earth!