Anti-capitalist and self-proclaimed “rabble-rousing leftist” climate activist Naomi Klein took liberal guilt complexes to a new level at a conference to compel a transformation in climate-change media coverage.
Speaking on a panel about the Green New Deal at the Columbia Journalism Review event on April 30, Klein said what was holding people back from taking action on climate was a “sense of doom” and “self-loathing.”
“Having covered this for a really long time, uh, I know that one of the strongest forces we are up against is the sense of doom, inevitability, but also kind of a self-loathing,” Klein said.
“Like we’ve been told for so long that all we are [is] selfish, that all we are are short-term thinkers. We get messages like the huge cover story in the New York Times Magazine that blames the whole thing on human nature.”
She continued, “So I really do think there is a deep feeling of ‘We’re are, we’re not even sure we deserve to survive.’”
She said a video she created with the Intercept and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was designed to try to “pierce the feeling of inevitability.”
The video, “AOC’s message from the future,” included a Democratic socialist vision for the future — of massive government spending and mandates. She argued there are only 12 years to “change everything.”
“The only way to do it was to transform our economy which we already knew was broken,” Ocasio-Cortez says in the video.
Ocasio-Cortez projected a vision of Democratic power in House, Senate, and the White House beginning in 2020 that launches “The Decade of the Green New Deal,” passes Medicare-for-All, “the most popular social program in American history,” institutes a federal jobs guarantee and rebuilds America including renewable energy grid and “retrofitting every building in America.”
As for solving a perceived climate crisis, Klein said, “We have the slimmest of chances, but if we have even that sliver of a chance then it is our moral responsibility to enlarge that change. And yes, that includes journalists.”
In another discussion at the CJR “Covering Climate Change” event, Klein complained that media coverage of climate change is inadequate because a large number of journalists have a “confirmation” and “fetish” for centrism and middle ground.
“I admit that climate change is — doesn’t pose a sort of confirmation bias threat for me. I’m a rabble-rousing leftist. I admit it. Right? I want deep change. And now climate scientists are saying hey, guess what, we need deep change,” Klein continued.
Just before leaving the event she called for a “divestment movement in journalism,” of journalists banding together to reject advertising from fossil fuel companies.
The Columbia Journalism Review’s event on how to “transform” media coverage of climate change (by shifting it even further left) was sponsored by far-left Nation magazine, The Guardian and WNYC.
Many left-wing journalists spoke including people from The Washington Post, New York Times, The Nation, MSNBC and Vox.
Read more at NewsBusters
Further to Klein’s mention of feelings of self loathing and inevitable doom, I found this tidbit from Stephen Maher at Macleans magazine
“The ghost of climate future is so awful – a world of suffering and loss, with increasing crime, war, terrorism and mental illness, that scientists who work on the issue have to be treated for depression”
They’re admitting that they’re mentally off kilter, but we’re supposed to accept that their judgements are sound?
I would normally recommend that aberrant people get mental health help but I don’t think folks like this woman can be helped.
Although here first couple of books had some merit…I made the mistake of reading her last book “This Changes Everything”. Clearly she found the extreme green bandwagon useful in her quest to condemn Global Capitalism. In her last book, she speaks down to the less educated masses especially in the realm of real science by using such hyperbole as….. “The Alberta Tar Sands is a carbon bomb.” “The Keystone XL Pipeline to the Gulf of Mexico, if approved, would be the “Artery of Death!” She is a spoiled rich brat, Jewish atheist who expresses severe disdain against religions, especially Christian but makes allowances for the Muslim faith and much more-so for North American First Nation’s ancient spiritualism since she strives to align closely with Gaia, the worship of Mother Nature. It would seem that her brief time in US prison as an environmental protester left her unhinged so as to lose control of her ability to write solid factual material thus turning hard towards emotional drivel. Not until her mother died when she was still a teenager did she begin to wake up to realize her own selfish spoiled brat self-destructive nature. She developed emotional issues as a witness to the Ecole Polytechnique massacre of women by a crazed gunman who claimed to be persecuted by clique of other young inmature girls out to destroy him….https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_Polytechnique_massacre
Fiction masquerading as journalism. Michael Moore was once cornered in an interview about a big fat white lie. He confessed that he made a living telling stories.
So, I have a story for Naomi Klein. The Alberta Tar Sands is Gaia’s environmental spill, and Alberta is cleaning it up.
She belongs in a padded cell and straight jacket she is way too unstable to be allowed in Public
I have been following the climate change fraud for 17 years. People who want to destroy the free enterprise system have been supporting this fraud for many years thinking that is the best way to achieve their goals.
She needs to run for the Democrats . She has the same preachy tone .
No flower pot the sense of doom and self loathing is you projecting .
People have tuned out the liars in the scary global warming , climate change , climate crisis industry .
The bought and paid for biased climate models have proven to be grossly inaccurate and not surprisingly almost always in one direction . Hmm … no ice free Arctic and the world is greening . oh yeah folks now step right up and drink our Green Deal cool -aid , you will be so pleased to know you contributed to the total destruction of our society .
Try and sell that crap “rabble rousing leftists . People just don’t think cow farts are killing the planet .
This self declared deity
wants to talk about morals ?
I invite all to think about that.
Naomi hasn’t aged well, unless that’s just a bad picture.