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by Naomi Klein

time frames and, 127–128

  (see also Climate agenda)

  Climate of Corruption (Bell), 71

  ClimateDepot, 71

  Clinton, Hillary, 191

  Clothing, 126, 131–132

  CNN, 75n, 94

  Coal, 6, 27, 37, 80, 112, 130, 156, 195, 196, 198, 199, 203–205, 264, 280, 285

  Cobalt, 126

  Cohen, Leonard, 182

  Collective action, 91, 92, 120, 181

  College of the Atlantic commencement address, 2015 (Klein), 129–136

  Colombia, 66

  Colonialism, 20–21, 159, 194, 196, 235

  Columbia River, 207

  Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy, 80n

  Communism, 79

  Communitarian worldview, 92

  Competitive Enterprise Institute, 71

  Conflict Shoreline, The (Weizman), 161

  Conservative Party (Canada), 175, 182

  Conservative Party (UK), 238n

  Consumerism/consumption, 81, 85–88, 90, 121–122, 126, 264

  Cook, James, 20, 195, 196

  Copenhagen summit of 2, 22, 73

  Coral reefs, 18, 25, 154, 194–196

  Corporate tax rate, 283

  Cox, Liam, 168

  Cox, Stan, 75

  Crabapple, Molly, 272–273, 277–278

  Crenshaw, Kimberlé, 194

  Crops, 8, 25, 83

  Culberson, John, 64

  Cultural cognition, 92–93

  Cultural values, 102–103

  Curry, John, 63

  Cyclone force, 41

  Cyclone Idai, 4, 49

  Cyclone Kenneth, 4

  Dakota Access Pipeline, 189

  Daly, Herman, 86

  Daraa, Syria, 161

  Day, Ryan, 216

  de Kooning, Willem de, 276

  Death of Nature, The (Merchant), 59

  DeBeers diamond mine, Canada, 157

  Decarbonization, 30, 31

  DeChristopher, Tim, 101

  Deepwater drilling, 19, 160

  Deepwater Horizon offshore rig, 54, 60–65, 67, 68, 125, 229

  Deforestation, 156, 204, 227n, 228n

  Delhi, India, 3

  Delingpole, James, 78

  Democratic Party (US), 22, 30, 31, 51, 74, 75n, 76, 252, 260, 275

  Democratic Republic of the Congo, 126

  Democratic socialism, 251

  Democratic Socialists of America, 250

  Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), Ireland, 238n

  Denmark, 251

  Deregulation, 85, 192, 248, 249

  Desertification, 150

  DiEM25, 31

  Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, 173

  Doctrine of Christian Discovery, 50, 158

  Doughnut Economics (Raworth), 265

  Drone strikes, 162

  Drought, 2, 25, 49, 95, 97, 106n, 108, 124, 161, 162, 165

  Dunlap, Riley, 95

  Düsseldorf, Germany, 13

  Dust Bowl, 22, 26, 277

  Dutch Virgin Islands, 241–242

  Earthquakes, 19

  Economic planning, 81, 82–83, 90

  Economics and Political Economy Research Department, University of Massachusetts–Amherst, 282

  Economopoulos, Nikos, 220n

  Ecuador, 90, 265

  Edward W. Said London Lecture, 2016 (Klein), 149–168

  Egalitarian worldview, 92

  Eisenberg, Carolyn, 263

  El Niño, 221

  El Salvador, 49

  Electric vehicle, 38

  Ellison, Ralph, 276

  Emanuel African Methodist Church, Charleston, South Carolina, 42

  Emission reduction, 8, 9, 24, 28, 30, 33, 45–46, 78, 82, 84–86, 107, 113–117, 130, 150, 155, 177, 178, 183, 246, 249, 251, 260, 264, 266, 271, 281, 282, 285

  Encalade, Byron, 63

  End of the Myth, The: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America (Grandin), 186n

  Endlessness, story of, 185–190

  Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 55, 96

  Environmental Research Letters, 5

  ETC Group, 107

  Ethnic conflicts, 125

  European Convention on Women’s Rights, 31

  European Spring, 31, 283

  European Transport Workers Federation, 282

  European Union, 11, 12, 47

  Evans, Walker, 277

  Extinction, 1–2, 5, 52, 119

  Extinction Rebellion, 21–22

  Exxon Valdez oil spill, 57

  ExxonMobil, 88, 93, 94, 264

  Facebook, 43, 64

  Family leave, 268

  Famine, 96, 97

  Fareha, Nosrat, 4

  Farming, 7, 83, 85, 97, 100

  Feedback loops, 223–224

  FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency), 49, 256

  Fiji, 154

  Financial crash of 2008, 115, 235

  Financial Oversight and Management Board (Puerto Rico), 254

  Fishing, 55–57, 64, 65, 68, 187–188

  Flannigan, Mike, 221

  Floods, 3, 125, 166, 168, 207, 216, 233

  Florida State University, 69

  Forest management, 221, 228n

  Forests, 78, 97, 188

  Forst, Michael, 203

  Fort McMurray, Alberta, 157, 215, 228

  Fossil fuels, 2, 7, 8, 14, 17, 19, 22, 37–39, 51–52, 59, 73, 74n, 76, 78, 82–84, 88–89, 94, 134, 156, 158, 160, 161, 165, 166, 196, 199, 202–203, 241, 244, 247, 251, 260–261, 280, 283–286, 289

  Fracking operations, 19, 37, 101, 118, 134, 160, 165, 183, 184, 188, 198, 199, 240

  France, 184, 287, 289

  Francis, Pope, 20, 144

  “Laudato sì” by, 137–143, 145–147

  Francis of Assisi, Saint, 140–141, 144

  Free-market climate solutions, 97, 287, 289, 291

  Free trade, 84, 85, 94, 96, 98, 192, 249

  Free Trade Agreement, 248

  Freedom of Information Act, 71

  Freilla, Omar, 102

  French Caribbean, 242

  Friedman, Thomas, 86, 288

  Fur trade, 187, 188, 189

  Garza, Alicia, 131

  Gates, Bill, 106

  Gaza, 154, 162

  Genetically modified seeds, 97

  Genocide, 159n, 201

  Geoengineering, 67, 100, 105–109, 116, 230

  Geophysical Research Letters, 108

  George, Russ, 105–106, 109

  Germany, 35, 37, 130, 180, 184, 234, 263

  Gillibrand, Kirsten, 30

  Gingrich, Newt, 61–62, 74

  Glacier National Park, 208, 233

  Glaciers, 8, 28

  Global climate models, 110, 117

  Global economic crisis, 99

  Global warming, 14, 19, 23–24, 70, 72, 74n, 75, 78, 79, 89, 92, 94, 96, 100, 105, 115, 116, 155, 165, 183, 198, 199, 249, 282, 290

  Global Witness, 204

  Grandin, Greg, 186n

  Grantham, Jeremy, 112

  Gray, Lucy, 41

  Great Barrier Reef, 4, 20, 194–196

  Great Depression, 22, 26, 34, 37, 237, 262, 276

  Great Transition, 178

  Greece, 220n

  Green colonialism, 151

  Green New Deal, 17, 26–31, 40, 46, 53, 152, 178, 251–252, 259–261, 263–268, 270–275, 277–280

  for Europe, 31

  Leap Manifesto, 16, 174–183, 185, 187, 211

  nine reasons for, 281–291

  Ocasio-Cortez/Markey resolution, 30, 36, 259, 263

  Green Workers Cooperatives, Bronx, New York, 102

  Greenhouse gas emissions, 5, 84, 114–115, 126, 133, 181, 223, 270, 283

  Greenland, 112, 118, 120, 220, 224, 243

  Greenpeace, 94, 118, 135–136, 182

  Grégoire, Sophie, 227

  Grenfell Tower catastrophe (UK), 236

  Gualcarque River hydroelectric dam, Honduras, 159

  Guatemala, 5, 49

 
Guillen, Rosalinda, 214

  Gujaaw, 182

  Gulf of Mexico, 20, 54–68, 89, 125

  Gulf of Mexico Regional Oil Spill Response Plan (BP), 57

  Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, 69

  Gulf War oil spill, 57

  Gun ownership, 15

  Haida Gwaii, 105

  Hamilton, Clive, 117

  Hansen, James, 77, 112, 154, 246

  Harden, Monique, 65

  Harris, Kamala, 30

  Harris poll (2007), 73

  Hatfield, Henry D., 275

  Hayward, Tony, 55, 58, 60, 62, 63, 68, 125

  Hazardous waste sites, 269

  Health care, 26, 30, 267–268

  Heartland Institute, 77, 80, 87–89, 91, 93–94, 98

  Sixth International Conference on Climate Change, 70–73, 78, 79, 81, 83, 91–92, 94, 95, 103

  Hebron, 154

  Henry, James S., 284

  Heritage Foundation, 91

  HMS Endeavour, 195, 196

  Homeland Security, U.S. Department of, 49

  Honduras, 49, 204

  Hopkins, Harry, 276

  Hopkins, Katie, 164

  Horner, Chris, 71, 72, 79

  Hudson’s Bay Company, 187

  Hughes, Terry, 195n

  Human rights, 35, 152, 203, 204

  Huntsman, John, 76

  Hurricane Florence, 256

  Hurricane Haiyan, 256

  Hurricane Harvey, 69, 207, 215, 219, 233

  Hurricane Irma, 207, 215, 233, 234, 256

  Hurricane Katrina, 16, 56, 57, 165, 215, 235, 256, 266

  Hurricane Maria, 3, 234, 253–258, 266, 267

  Hurricanes, 5, 125

  Hurston, Zora Neale, 276

  Hussain, Murtaza, 48–49

  Huxley, Thomas, 188

  Hydro power, 39, 80n

  Ice cores, 110, 117

  Ice sheets, 107

  Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), 48

  Immigration policies, 47–48, 97, 164n, 181, 202

  India, 21, 108, 115, 204–206, 257

  Indigenous peoples, 19, 30, 36, 39, 66–67, 90, 111, 118, 143, 151–152, 157–158, 159n, 170, 176, 180, 182, 188–189, 200, 204, 205, 216, 220, 224–226, 250, 251, 265, 266, 291

  Indignados (Spain), 239

  Indonesia, 131, 133, 216

  Industrial agriculture, 156

  Industrial Revolution, 195, 242, 270

  Innis, Harold, 187–188

  Intellectual Ventures, 106

  Intercept, The, 277

  International Alliance of Catholic Development Agencies, 142

  International Fisheries Exhibition, 188

  International Monetary Fund (IMF), 49, 90

  International Organization for Migration, 163n

  International trade, 81, 84–85

  Inuit people, 126

  Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Crusade Against the New Deal (Phillips-Fein), 275

  Iran, 163

  Iraq, 21, 161, 162, 167, 172, 197

  Iron and Earth, 200

  Israel, 150–152, 161, 163

  Italian pensioners, 113

  Jackson, Tim, 86, 87

  Jackson, Wes, 83

  Jevons paradox, 86

  Jewish National Fund, 151

  Job creation, 26, 281–282, 290

  Job guarantee, 268–269

  John Paul II, Pope, 141

  Johnson, Murrawah, 202

  Jubilee Debt Campaign, 49

  Jungle, The (Sinclair), 262

  Kahan, Dan, 92–93, 100

  Kamloops, Canada, 210

  Keeter, Scott, 73–74

  Kerry, John, 73

  Keynes, John Maynard, 90

  Keystone XL Pipeline, 76, 101–102, 112, 170

  Kim Jong-un, 230

  Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline, 225–227, 233

  King, Llewellyn, 64

  Kirschenmann, Fred, 83

  Klaus, Vaclav, 79

  Koch brothers, 75, 93, 94

  Koch Industries, 289

  Koonin, Steven, 67

  Kretzmann, Stephen, 52

  Kyoto Protocol, 85

  La Paz, Bolivia, 28

  Labor unions, 132, 133

  Labour Party Conference, Brighton, England (2017), Klein speech at, 234–242

  Labour Party (UK), 32

  Lafontaine-Baldwin Lecture, 2016 (Klein), 169–190

  Land Institute, Salina, Kansas, 83

  Lange, Dorothea, 277

  “Laudato sì” (Pope Francis), 137–143, 145–147

  Le Guin, Ursula K., 274

  Leap Manifesto, 16, 174–183 185, 187, 211

  Lenin, Vladimir, 144

  Lennox, Zoe Buckley, 135–136

  Lewis, Avi, 211, 222, 231, 278

  Liberal Party, Canada, 175, 182

  Libya, 162

  Coast Guard, 164n

  migrant camps, 47

  Little Ice Age, 159n

  Lodgepole Complex fire, 219

  Logging, 227n

  Lombardi, Federico, 138

  Long, Huey, 262

  Los Angeles, California, 212, 219, 233

  Louisiana, 54–56, 63, 64, 97, 154, 188

  Louisiana State University, 68

  Macron, Emmanuel, 7, 287, 289

  Maher, Neil, 34

  Mali, 162

  Manders, Nelke, 164n

  Manifest Destiny, 158

  Manuel, Arthur, 224–225

  Manus island, 163

  Market crash of 1929, 115

  Markey, Ed, 30, 36, 60, 259, 263

  Marshall Islands, 16, 154

  Marshall Plan, 28, 35, 37, 263

  Marshall Plan for Planet Earth, 178

  Martel, Yann, 182

  Marvel, Kate, 39

  Maslin, Mark, 159n

  Mass shootings, 42–44

  May, Theresa, 237

  McConnell, Mitch, 62

  McCright, Aaron, 95

  McDonagh, Seán, 143–145, 147

  McKibben, Bill, 108, 118

  Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), 164n

  Medicare for All, 267

  Mediterranean Sea, 163

  Merchant, Carolyn, 59, 66

  Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, A (video), 272, 277–279

  Methane, 224

  #MeToo movement, 266

  Mexican Americans, 36

  Mexico, 162, 186n

  Michaels, Patrick, 71, 94, 95, 96

  Midterm elections of 2018 (US), 22, 27

  Migrants and refugees, 162–165, 168, 181, 234, 242

  Migration patterns, 119

  Military (US), 35, 90, 284

  Miranda, Moema de, 144–147

  Mississippi River Delta, 56

  Modi, Narendra, 230

  Mohr, Jean, 149

  Momentum movement, 238

  Monbiot, George, 265

  Monocultures, 83

  Monsoons, 105, 108, 230

  Montana, 76, 218, 219

  Morano, Marc, 71–73

  Morrison, Dawn, 225

  Morrison, Scott, 6

  Morton, Timothy, 126

  Mosaddegh, Mohammad, 160–161

  Mossville, Louisiana, 64

  Mountaintop removal coal mining, 156

  Mozambique, 4, 49

  Mulroney, Brian, 182

  Munger Farms, 214–215

  Murkowski, Lisa, 61

  NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), 248

  Naot, Yehudit, 152

  NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), 110, 112

  National Book Foundation Medal, 274

  National Health Service (UK), 237

  National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), 68

  National Wildlife Federation (NWF), 68

  Nationalization, 89, 90, 238

  Nature, 112, 183

  Nature Climate Change, 116, 150

  Nature’s New Deal (Maher), 34

  Nauru island, 163, 164

  Navajo Indians, 126
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  Negev Desert, 151

  Neo-Nazi right, 93

  Neoliberalism, 249, 251, 252, 269

  Net-zero carbon emissions, 24, 30, 86, 285

  Neves, Katja, 67

  New Consensus, 283

  New Deal, 22, 26, 31, 33–34, 36, 37, 39, 237, 262, 263, 266, 271, 273–276, 286

  New Delhi, India, 212

  New Democratic Party (NDP), Canada, 32, 175, 182

  New Orleans, Louisiana, 97

  New Scientist, 195n

  New York City, New York, 2–3, 130

  New York Times, 275, 288

  New York Times Magazine, 243–250

  New Zealand

  Al Noor Mosque massacre in, 42–45, 48–49

  offshore oil drilling and, 38

  School Strike for Climate in, 40–41

  Newfoundland, 185, 188

  Niger Delta, 156, 159

  Nigeria, 207, 233

  Nilch’i (Holy Wind), 126

  Nixon, Rob, 150

  No Logo (Klein), 32, 126, 131, 133

  Nonviolent direct action, 21

  North Carolina, 257

  North Dakota, 204–205, 218

  Northern Gas Pipeline, Australia, 198

  Norway, 38

  summer camp massacre, 42, 46

  Nuclear power, 100, 112, 264, 280

  Nuclear weapons, 112

  Obama, Barack, 19, 55–56, 62, 64, 71, 73

  O’Brien, Matt, 55

  Obsessive-compulsive disorder, 9

  Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria, 29–30, 36, 259, 263, 272, 273, 277–279, 282–283

  Occidental Petroleum, 66

  Occupy Wall Street, 77, 101, 102, 111, 239

  Ocean acidification, 107, 110, 117

  Ocean fertilization, 105, 109

  Ocean warming, 5

  Offshore oil drilling, 38, 199

  Ogimaa Mikana Project, 173

  Oil Change International, 52, 199

  Oil industry, 88–89, 160–161

  Oil pipelines, 23, 27, 30, 76, 101–102, 112, 134, 170, 183, 189, 205, 225–227, 233, 266

  Oil prices, 174–175, 188

  Oil spills, 20, 54–58, 60–65, 68–69, 125, 126, 156

  Open-pit mining, 156

  Orientalism, 158, 160

  Orientalism (Said), 155

  Oslo, Norway, 42

  Oxford University, 134

  Pacific Islanders, 41, 154, 164

  Pacific Northwest, 3, 209, 231

  Pakistan, 162

  Palestinians, 149–153, 162

  Palin, Sarah, 62, 64

  Paradise, California, 223

  Parenti, Christian, 283

  Paris Climate Agreement, 7, 22, 136, 155, 165, 183, 184, 198, 230

  Parkland, Florida school shooting, 15

  Parks, Gordon, 277

  Patriarchy, 159

  Pay equity, 268

  Pelosi, Nancy, 22, 23, 29, 74

  Pennsylvania gas fields, 76

  People’s Climate March (2014), 22

  Perennial crops, 83

  Perry, Rick, 72, 75–76

  Persian Gulf, 57

  Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, 73–74, 75n

  Philippines, 16, 131, 143, 204, 257

  Phillips-Fein, Kim, 275

 

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