{"id":2877,"date":"2015-01-21T11:18:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T11:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=2877"},"modified":"2015-01-22T16:14:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T16:14:21","slug":"jenny-turner-on-naomi-klein-on-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/21\/jenny-turner-on-naomi-klein-on-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenny Turner on Naomi Klein on Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

But it’s difficult to spot climate change as it happens, because it moves so spasmodically and is by its nature “place-based”. What do I know about the mines of Nauru or gas flares on the Niger Delta? What can I do about flooding in the Maldives or New Orleans? “Sacrifice zones” is what Klein chillingly calls the places most depredated: “Poor places. Out-of-the-way places. Places where residents lack\u00a0political power, usually having to\u00a0do with some combination of race, language and class.” But even in the rich world, most people don’t notice the dwindling of nature in their parks and gardens; or if they do, they are so sickened, they have to stop noticing right away. Which is why Klein sees the\u00a0living wage as a climate issue. The main reason so many people are so careless is because they are worn out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jenny Turner: This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate by Naomi Klein \u2013 review<\/a><\/em>. The Guardian, 19 September 2014<\/p>\n

Turner also mentions Is Earth Fucked?<\/em> \u2014in which Geophysicist Brad Werner says yes, definitely,<\/strong> unless (Klein adds) citizens seriously oppose capitalism<\/a> (and yes, that’s really the title of his paper)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But it’s difficult to spot climate change as it happens, because it moves so spasmodically and is by its nature “place-based”. What do I know about the mines of Nauru or gas flares on the Niger Delta? What can I do about flooding in the Maldives or New Orleans? “Sacrifice zones” is what Klein chillingly … Continue reading Jenny Turner on Naomi Klein on Climate Change<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,687,200],"tags":[686,676,677,685,684],"class_list":["post-2877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","category-quotation","tag-brad-werner","tag-climate-change","tag-global-warming","tag-jenny-turner","tag-naomi-klein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2877"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2882,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877\/revisions\/2882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}