Naomi Klein: Shock of Oil Price Plunge Is Opportunity World Must Seize

[eridani]

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/25/naomi-klein-shock-oil-price-plunge-opportunity-world-must-seize

As part of the Guardian newspaper's recently launched "keep it in the ground" campaign, Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein appears in a new video on Wednesday in which she argues the current moment is ripe for the world to take advantage of the dramatic drop in global oil prices by kicking the fossil fuel industry "while it's down."

Calling on themes from her two most recent books—'The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster' in 2007 and the more recently published 'This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate'—Klein says the fall in oil prices since last year should be seen as an opportunity for those concerned about both the prevailing economic order and the dangers of climate change. "Let's turn this shock," she says in the nearly five-minute video essay, "into the shift we need."

"Could this be the shock that we harness for our big shift? I think it can be." —Naomi KleinHer list of demands include: "No drilling in the arctic... No expansion of the tar sands... more fracking bans like the ones in New York state and Scotland," and a call to support and broaden the calls for fossil fuel divestment worldwide while ramping up the needed and available solutions to the climate crisis.

"Sometimes capitalism gives us a gift," Klein says, "and the sudden drop in oil prices is one of them."

[Sherman A1]

1. Agreed

It would be nice to see a little help at the pump price for workers and consumers as well as a increased move to renewables. There is no reason in my opinion why we cannot do both.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

2. Meanwhile, Republicans are still chanting, "Drill, baby! Drill!".

[daleanime]

3. Major K&R

A lot of work ahead of us and it's way past time to get started.

[Dustlawyer]

4. Until we start a real battle to get the money out of our elections, the bought off politicians of

both Party's will do nothing meaningful.