Naomi Klein: How science is telling us all to revolt
According to the abstract for [Brad Werner's] presentation, this includes “environmental direct action, resistance taken from outside the dominant culture, as in protests, blockades and sabotage by indigenous peoples, workers, anarchists and other activist groups”.
Serious scientific gatherings don’t usually feature calls for mass political resistance, much less direct action and sabotage. But then again, Werner wasn’t exactly calling for those things.
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If we are to avoid that kind of carnage while meeting our science-based emissions targets, carbon reduction must be managed carefully through what Anderson and Bows describe as “radical and immediate de-growth strategies in the US, EU and other wealthy nations”.
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I see. We must cause the total collapse of the global economy and dive headlong into the next dark ages in order to avoid synthetic riots and fraudulent political unrest.
She is way beyond being simply "unhinged". She is living in a fantasy in an alternate universe and is expecting the rest of us to pay to watch the movie.
Electing Obama was a radical and immediate de-growth strategy.
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