Shock Doctrine author on D-Now, Climate Change

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I found the first half of the interview on a Dem Underground post regarding Shock Doctrine and WI protests. The second half of the full interview covers Naomi Klein's work on a new book which focuses on Climate Change. As with the Shock Doctrine, her perspective is right on the money, IMO. I really like her thoughts on what Cap and Trade (carbon offset programs) is really about. It reminded me of how the US government forced private land ownership on Native American reservations once they found precious resources on those lands. The end result of that era now has the Nez Perce reservation being 90% owned by non-tribal members, the allotments on Navajo land allow for coal mines, uranium mines and power plants which fuel L.A.'s need for energy. Carbon Offset programs will exploit Africa and other nations so that we can privatize landownership and grow biofuels to supplement our oil needs, all the while displace indigenous peoples. For those nations who signed on for World Bank and IMF loans, they gave up indigenous peoples' right to argue such actions in court as indigenous people's have no right according to IMF loans and World Bank perspective.

First segment on Climate Change
"Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher was convicted last week of two felony counts for disrupting an auction of more than 100,000 acres of federal land for oil and gas drilling in December 2008. Award-winning journalist Naomi Klein talks about why she signed on to a public letter of support for DeChristopher. "What did Tim DeChristopher do wrong? They said that he participated in an auction and without the intention to pay," Klein says. "Oil and gas companies privatize the profits from their resource extraction but externalize the costs, being the pollution and the cleanup... Climate change the biggest disaster of all and the highest price tag of all—this, created by the fossil fuel industries... They have no intention of paying that cost." "
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/3/9/naomi_klein_tim_dechristopher_guilty_verdict

Final segment
"Award-winning journalist Naomi Klein has been reporting on global warming and the climate justice movement for years. “My fear is that climate change is the biggest crisis of all,” Klein says. “If we don’t come up with a positive vision of how climate change can make our economies and our world more just, more livable, cleaner, fairer, then this crisis will be exploited to militarize our economies, to create fortress continents. And we’re really facing a choice. What we really need now is for the people fighting for economic justice and environmental justice to come together.” "
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/3/9/my_fear_is_that_climate_change

Initial portion of interview focused on Shock Doctrine and WI.
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/3/9/naomi_klein_on_anti_union_bills

[jimlup]

1. Kick and rec!

Thanks for posting