"… the real reason we are failing to rise to the climate moment is because the actions required directly challenge our reigning economic paradigm (deregulated capitalism combined with public austerity), the stories on which Western cultures are found (that we stand apart from nature and can outsmart its limits), as well as many of the activities that form our identities and define our communities (shopping, living virtually, shopping some more). They also spell extinction for the richest and most powerful industry the world has ever known—the oil and gas industry..."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Imported from EN Wikiquote
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/This_Changes_Everything_(book)
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
This Changes Everything (book)
120 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by This Changes Everything (book) →
Related Quotes
"… In other words, it is always easier to deny reality than to allow our worldview to be shattered …"
"Progressives [must show] that the real solutions to the climate crisis are also our best hope of building a much more…"
"… the alternative to such a project is not the status quo extended indefinitely. It is climate-change-fueled disaster…"
"The kind of counter-power that has a chance of changing society on anything close to the scale required is still miss…"
"[The environmental movement] tried to prove that saving the planet could be a great new business opportunity."
"Divestment is just the first stage of this delegitimization process, but it is already well under way."
"This, of course, is the core of the argument for the existence of a ‘climate debt’ … p. 409"
"What is emerging, in fact, is a new kind of reproductive rights movement, one fighting not only for the reproductive …"
"This Changes Everything is well worth a read... but we’ve distilled some of its key points here. 1. Band-Aid solution…"
"[A shift is needed in] "power—specifically … a shift in who wields it, a shift away from corporations and toward comm…"