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Naomi Klein on Geoengineering and the Western Lifestyle (Podcast)

Naomi Klein, author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine, gives an insightful talk in the podcast below on the madness of our western lifestyles and the geoengineering it’s giving birth to.

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Click play below to hear Naomi’s talk:

Naomi Klein on Geoengineering and the Western Lifestyle

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  1. Thanks Craig, well worth the listen. Something that Naomi said in this podcast struck a note with me. It was the word ‘Uncivilisation’. This is a term which, while it has a familiar ring about it, I don’t recall giving any conscious thought to previously. So I did some research. Perhaps Naomi’s reference to the word is as a result of some prior knowledge of what I found.

    I came across the following site: https://www.planetthoughts.org/?pg=pt/Whole&qid=3224 which, on the face of it, has some very interesting things to say on the predicament the current civilisation, of which we are all part, is facing. I won’t say too much about this as it may not be everyones cup of tea but I intend to investigate further since the ideas promoted are of particular interest to myself. I wonder if any other readers have background knowledge of this group calling themselves the Dark Mountain Project.

    They have a written manifesto which contains the following short quote: ‘It is, it seems, our civilisation’s turn to experience the inrush of the savage and the unseen; our turn to be brought up short by contact with untamed reality. There is a fall coming. We live in an age in which familiar restraints are being kicked away, and foundations snatched from under us. …Now a familiar human story is being played out. It is the story of an empire corroding from within. It is the story of a people who believed, for a long time, that their actions did not have consequences. It is the story of how that people will cope with the crumbling of their own myth. It is our story.’

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