Thursday, November 12, 2009

Climate [Fraud] Rage : NAOMI KLEIN - Rolling Stone
In Latin America, left-wing economists have long argued that Western powers owe a vaguely defined "ecological debt" to the continent for centuries of colonial land-grabs and resource extraction. But the emerging argument for climate debt is far more concrete, thanks to a relatively new body of research putting precise figures on who emitted what and when...
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...unless we pay our climate debt, and quickly, we may well find ourselves living in a world of climate rage. "Privately, we already hear the simmering resentment of diplomats whose countries bear the costs of our emissions," Sen. John Kerry observed recently.
[But she's not even a climatologist!]: Naomi Klein: Definition from Answers.com
Naomi Klein was brought up in a Jewish family with a history of left-wing activism.
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Her paternal grandparents were communists who began to turn against the Soviet Union after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and had abandoned communism by 1956.
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In 2000, Klein published the book No Logo, which for many became a manifesto of the anti-corporate globalization movement.

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