“Climate change has never received the crisis
treatment from our leaders, despite the fact that it carries the risk of
destroying lives on a vastly greater scale than collapsed banks or collapsed
buildings….But we need not be spectators in all this: Politicians aren't the
only ones with the power to declare a crisis. Mass movements of regular people
can declare one too. Slavery wasn't a crisis for British and American elites
until abolitionism turned it into one. Racial discrimination wasn't a crisis
until the civil rights movement turned it into one. Sex discrimination wasn't a
crisis until feminism turned it into one. Apartheid wasn't a crisis until the
anti-apartheid movement turned it into one." —Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (2014)
(Photo of Naomi Klein taken by Mariusz Kubik in
Warsaw, Poland, Nov. 19, 2008.)
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