Coronavirus vs Climate Change with Naomi Klein
About this Conversation
Remember those Australian bush fires from the ancient past (February 2020)? Climate issues have never been further from the front pages yet we have a once-in-a-generation chance to respond differently. Join the iconic author of 'No Logo' and 'On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal', as we consider transformative possibilities for the coming rebuilding of our inner and outer worlds. Whatever your politics, she has powerful ideas worth listening to.
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Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author who has been invited by the Pope to speak help launch his historic encyclical on ecology. She is a co-founder and advisory board chair of The Leap, a climate justice organisation that exists to inject new urgency and bold ideas into confronting the intersecting crises of our time: climate change, racism and inequality.
She is a familiar commentator in print, radio and television around the world, appearing on such shows as Fareed Zakaria’s GPS on CNN, BBC Newsnight and HARDTalk, Democracy Now, The Colbert Report, Charlie Rose and HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher.
She is the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University.
Why you should listen?
Naomi Klein’s ideas can be shocking and highly disruptive but are grounded on real issues that it's hard for any of us to deny. Her first book No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies was translated into over 30 languages. The New York Times called it “a movement bible.”
Awardee of the Sydney Peace Prize — 2016
Klein is one of the organisers and authors of Canada’s Leap Manifesto, a blueprint for a rapid and justice-based transition off fossil fuels. She is now a co-founder and advisory board chair of The Leap, a climate justice organization developed from the Manifesto that exists to inject new urgency and bold ideas into confronting the intersecting crises of our time: climate change, racism and inequality.