by Naomi Klein
Donald Trump: “Little Marco,” “Lyin’ Ted”
“Trump Calls Rubio ‘Little Marco,’ Rubio Calls Him, ‘Big Donald,’ ” YouTube video, 0:29, posted by Flat Water, March 3, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmJMFEJoNfo.
“Trump Already Back to Using ‘Lyin’ Ted,’ ” YouTube video, 4:35, posted by CNN, April 20, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8a4krfAJbI.
Donald Trump: “Lock her up!” “Killary”
“Audience to Trump: Lock Her Up,” video, 1:01, CNN.com, February 21, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/02/24/donald-trump-cpac-clinton-lock-her-up-sot.cnn.
Binjamin Appelbaum, Patricia Cohen, and Jack Healy, “A Rebounding Economy Remains Fragile for Many,” New York Times, September 14, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/15/business/economy/census-poverty-income-donald-trump.html.
Newt Gingrich: Trump “…huge TV show called ‘Leading the World’ ”
Brent Griffiths, “Gingrich: ‘Weird’ for Trump to Produce ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ as President,” Politico, December 9, 2016, http://www.politico.com/blogs/donald-trump-administration/2016/12/newt-gingrich-trump-celebrity-apprentice-232441.
Trump: “I’m not firing Sean Spicer…”
Ashley Parker and Robert Costa, “ ‘Everyone Tunes In’: Inside Trump’s Obsession with Cable TV,” Washington Post, April 23, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/everyone-tunes-in-inside-trumps-obsession-with-cable-tv/2017/04/23/3c52bd6c-25e3-11e7-a1b3-faff0034e2de_story.html?utm_term=.4685f374ef85.
Donald Trump’s “comeback party”
Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher, Trump Revealed: The Definitive Biography of the 45th President (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2016), 206.
Fake News, Alternative Facts, and the Big Lie
Donald Trump implies Ted Cruz’s dad had a role in assassinating JFK
Nolan McCaskill, “Trump Accuses Cruz’s Father of Helping JFK’s Assassin,” Politico, May 3, 2016, http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/05/trump-ted-cruz-father-222730.
Kellyanne Conway: “alternative facts”
Eric Bradner, “Conway: Trump White House Offered ‘Alternative Facts’ on Crowd Size,” CNN.com, January 23, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/22/politics/kellyanne-conway-alternative-facts/.
Politico: “White House staffers do much of their lying…”
Ben Schreckinger and Hadas Gold, “Trump’s Fake War on the Fake News,” Politico, April 23, 2017, http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/23/trump-loves-media-reporters-white-house-215043.
Obama: deportations of roughly 2.5 million immigrants without documents
Serena Marshall, “Obama Has Deported More People Than Any Other President,” ABC News online, August 29, 2016, http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/obamas-deportation-policy-numbers/story?id=41715661.
Barack Obama: “added enough new oil and gas pipeline…”
White House Office of the Press Secretary, “Remarks by the President on American-Made Energy,” press release, March 22, 2012, https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/22/remarks-president-american-made-energy.
The Apocalypse Show
March: more than 1,500 civilian deaths from US-led coalition airstrikes in Iraq and Syria
Chris Woods, Director, Airwars.org, personal correspondence with author or her research assistants, May 5, 2017: “In total there were 1,782 to 3,471 alleged civilian deaths from 166 separate claimed Coalition events during the month.”
Wilbur Ross: “after-dinner entertainment”
Lauren Gambino, “Trump’s Attack on Syria Was ‘After-Dinner Entertainment’ Says US Commerce Secretary,” Guardian, May 2, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/02/trumps-attack-on-syria-after-dinner-entertainment-wilbur-ross-commerce-secretary.
MSNBC host Brian Williams: “beautiful”
Stephanie McNeal, “Brian Williams Called the Missiles That Bombed Syria ‘Beautiful,’ ” Buzzfeed, April 7, 2017, https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemcneal/those-beautiful-missiles?utm_term=.bt1wzo2kR#.cmx8D03V6.
CNN and first Gulf War logo and theme music
Susan Jeffords and Lauren Rabinovitz, eds., Seeing Through the Media: The Persian Gulf War (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994), 202.
2003 Iraq invasion called “Shock and Awe”
“IRAQ/ SHOCK AND AWE,” video, 7:55, CNN.com, March 21, 2003, http://collection.cnn.com/content/clip/370017_359.do.
Hollow Man
Trump: “the most beautiful…you’ve ever seen”
Tom Phillips, “Trump Told Xi of Syria Strikes over ‘Beautiful Piece of Chocolate Cake,’ ” Guardian, April 12, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/12/trump-xi-jinping-chocolate-cake-syria-strikes.
PART II HOW WE GOT HERE: CLIMATE OF INEQUALITY
James Baldwin: “I imagine that…”
James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son (Boston: Beacon Press, 1955), 101.
CHAPTER 4
The Climate Clock Strikes Midnight
More than 90 percent of the Great Barrier Reef: “mass bleaching event”
United Nations Environment Program, “Bleaching of Great Barrier Reef Corals Worst Ever, Scientists Say,” UNEP.org, April 26, 2016, http://web.unep.org/stories/story/bleaching-great-barrier-reef-corals-worst-ever-scientists-say.
Ocean temperatures increased one degree Celsius
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, “Global Climate Report—January 2016,” National Centers for Environmental Information website, January 2016, https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201601.
One billion people around the world rely on the fish sustained by coral reefs for food and income
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, “The Importance of Coral Reefs,” March 25, 2008.
Martin Harvey, “Coral Reefs: Importance,” World Wildlife Fund website, accessed May 14, 2017, http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/blue_planet/coasts/coral_reefs/coral_importance/.
Rob Nixon: “slow violence”
Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011).
James Black: “the general scientific agreement…”
Neela Banerjee, Lisa Song, and David Hasemyer, “Exxon: The Road Not Taken,” InsideClimate News, Sept. 16, 2015, https://insideclimatenews.org/content/Exxon-The-Road-Not-Taken.
Shannon Hall, “Exxon Knew about Climate Change Almost 40 Years Ago,” Scientific American, October 26, 2015, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/.
Company lavished $30 million on think tanks spreading doubt about climate science
“Exxon Knew of Climate Change in 1981, Email Says—but It Funded Deniers for 27 More Years,” Guardian, July 8, 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/08/exxon-climate-change-1981-climate-denier-funding.
Mobil took out full-page ads in New York Times casting doubt on the science
Green Culture: An A to Z Guide (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2011), 371.
ExxonMobil under investigation by attorneys general for alleged deceptions
Justin Gillis and Clifford Kraussn, “Exxon Mobil Investigated for Possible Climate Change Lies by New York Attorney General,” New York Times, November 5, 2015, https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/06/science/exxon-mobil-under-investigation-in-new-york-over-climate-statements.html.
Truth Time
Samuel Beckett’s famous line “Try again. Fail again. Fail better”
Marc O’Connell, “The Stunning Success of ‘Fail Better,’ ” Slate, January 29, 2014, http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2014/01/samuel_beckett_s_quote_fail_better_becomes_the_man
tra_of_silicon_valley.html.
Every new power plant: zero-carbon starting in 2018
Alexander Pfeiffer, Richard Millar, Cameron Hepburn, and Eric Beinhocker, “The ‘2°C Capital Stock’ for Electricity Generation: Committed Cumulative Carbon Emissions from the Electricity Generation Sector and the Transition to a Green Economy,” Applied Energy, October 1, 2016, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261916302495.
Martin Luther King Jr.: “The arc of the moral universe is long…”
Martin Luther King Jr., baccalaureate Sermon delivered at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, June 7, 1964.
Lewis V. Baldwin, Behind the Public Veil: The Humanness of Martin Luther King Jr. (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2016).
Not Just Another Election Cycle—Epic Bad Timing
Greenpeace: Clinton’s campaign received at least $1.7 million from employees and registered lobbyists of fossil fuel companies
Jesse Coleman, Greenpeace, personal correspondence with author or her research assistants, May 9, 2017.
Robery Farley, “Clinton’s Fossil Fuel Money Revisited,” Factcheck.org, April 7, 2016, http://www.factcheck.org/2016/04/clintons-fossil-fuel-money-revisited/.
Clinton: people should “do their own research”
Perry Wheeler, “Fact Checkers Miss the Point on Greenpeace Research into Clinton Fossil Fuel Money,” Greenpeace website, http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/fact-checkers-miss-the-point-on-greenpeace-research-into-clinton-fossil-fuel-money/.
Eva Resnick-Day: “and that is why we are so terrified for the future…”
Eva Resnick-Day, “I’m the Greenpeace Activist Who Asked Hillary Clinton to Pledge to Reject Fossil Fuel Contributions at the Purchase NY Campaign Rally,” Greenpeace website, March 31, 2017, http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/im-the-greenpeace-activist-who-asked-hillary-clinton-to-pledge-to-reject-fossil-fuel-contributions-at-the-purchase-ny-campaign-rally/.
Warmed the planet by just one degree Celsius
Met Office (UK), “Global Climate in Context as the World Approaches 1°C Above Pre-industrial for the First Time,” Met Office website, http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/news/2015/global-average-temperature-2015.
“World Energy Outlook,” International Energy Agency, accessed May 3, 2017, https://www.iea.org/publications/scenariosandprojections/.
Kevin Anderson: “incompatible with any reasonable characterization…”
Kevin Anderson, “Climate Change Going Beyond Dangerous– Brutal Numbers and Tenuous Hope,” Development Dialogue 61 (September 2012), http://www.whatnext.org/resources/Publications/Volume-III/Single-articles/wnv3_andersson_144.pdf.
Paris Agreement: “well below” 2 degrees
“Paris Agreement: Essential Elements,” United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, accessed April 20, 2017, http://unfccc.int/paris_agreement/items/9485.php.
September 2016 study from Oil Change International
Oil Change International, The Sky’s Limit (Washington, DC: Oil Change International, September 2016), http://priceofoil.org/content/uploads/2016/09/OCI_the_skys_limit_2016_FINAL_2.pdf.
A Very Oily Administration
Scott Pruitt: sued the EPA; received money from fossil fuel companies
Dominique Mosbergen, “Scott Pruitt Has Sued the Environmental Protection Agency 13 Times. Now He Wants to Lead It,” Huffington Post, January 17, 2017, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/scott-pruitt-environmental-protection-agency_us_5878ad15e4b0b3c7a7b0c29c.
Rick Perry ties to the oil industry
Associated Press, “Rick Perry Is a Board Member of the Company Behind the Dakota Access Pipeline,” Fortune, December 13, 2016, http://fortune.com/2016/12/14/rick-perry-donald-trump-energy-dakota-pipeline/.
Richard Perry Financial Disclosure form, 2017, accessed from https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2016-trump-cabinet/data/pdfs/Perry-James-Richard-final278.pdf.
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
“The carbon bubble”
Paul Rosenberg, “Donald Trump’s ‘Carbon Bubble’ Economy Is Bound to Pop—the Only Question Is How Bad It Will Be,” Salon, January 2, 2017, http://www.salon.com/2017/01/02/donald-trumps-carbon-bubble-economy-is-bound-to-pop-the-only-question-is-how-bad-it-will-be/.
White House website removes references to climate change
Tom DiChristopher, “The White House Website’s Page on Climate Change Just Disappeared,” CNBC.com, January 21, 2017, http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/20/the-white-house-websites-page-on-climate-change-just-disappeared.html.
Plans to cut the NASA satellite program
Amina Khan, “Trump’s Budget Plan for NASA Focuses on Studying Space, Not Climate Change,” Los Angeles Times, March 16, 2017, http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-trump-budget-nasa-20170316-story.html.
Mick Mulvaney: “Regarding the question as to climate change…”
Dan Merica and Rene Marsh, “Trump Budget Chief on Climate: ‘Waste of Your Money,’ ” CNN.com, March 16, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/16/politics/donald-trump-budget-cut-epa/index.html.
Trump plan to reduce the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) budget by over 30 percent
Office of Management and Budget, “America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again,” released March 16, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/omb/budget/fy2018/2018_blueprint.pdf.
Price Is Everything
ExxonMobil: one-third of the company’s reserves were located in the Alberta tar sands
Securities and Exchange Commission, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Annual Report, 2015, 5, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/34088/000003408816000065/xom10k2015.htm.
Oil prices crash in 2014…and price has hovered at around $55 a barrel since
Brent Crude Prices, 2013–2017, Bloomberg.com, accessed April 13, 2017, https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/CO1:COM.
170,000 oil and gas workers have lost their jobs
Matt Egan, “100,000 Oil Jobs Could Be Coming Back,” CNN.com, July 14, 2016, http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/14/news/economy/oil-jobs-worker-shortage/.
Investment in the Alberta tar sands dropped by an estimated 37 percent
Government of Alberta, “Capital Investment in Alberta to Decline Again in 2016,” government report, July 8, 2016, https://www.albertacanada.com/files/albertacanada/SP-Commentary_07-08-16.pdf.
ExxonMobil wrote off nearly 3.5 million barrels of tar sands oil
Geoffrey Smith, “Exxon’s Big Oil Sands Write-Off Could Help It Dodge SEC Troubles,” Fortune, February 23, 2017, http://fortune.com/2017/02/23/exxon-mobil-oil-sands-sec/.
ExxonMobil profits: $45 billion in 2012, $8 billion in 2016
Chris Isidore, “ExxonMobil Profit Just Short of Record,” CNN.com, February 1, 2013, http://money.cnn.com/2013/02/01/news/companies/exxon-mobil-profit/index.html.
ExxonMobil Corporation, “ExxonMobil Earns $7.8 Billion in 2016; $1.7 Billion During Fourth Quarter,” press release, January 31, 2017, http://news.exxonmobil.com/press-release/exxonmobil-earns-78-billion-2016-17-billion-during-fourth-quarter.
What Conservatives Understand about Global Warming—and Liberals Don’t
Reagan: “The nine most terrifying words…”
Ronald Reagan, “The President’s News Conference,” August 12, 1986, online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=37733.
“The Nine Most Terrifying Words,” YouTube video, 0:12, posted by a random user, August 6, 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhYJS80MgYA.
Larry Summers: “Spread the truth…”
Stefan Hedlund, Russia’s Market Economy: A Bad Case of Predatory Capitalism (London: UCL Press Limited, 1999).
T
hatcher: “There is no alternative”
Fiona McPherson, “The Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher’s Linguistic Legacy,” Oxford Dictionaries website, April 10, 2013, http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/04/margaretthatcher/.
Warren Buffett: “there’s been class warfare…”
CNN Newsroom transcript, September 30, 2011, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1109/30/cnr.03.html.
March for Science: hundreds of thousands march
Olivia Milman, “March for Science Puts Earth Day Focus on Global Opposition to Trump,” Guardian, April 22, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/apr/22/march-for-science-earth-day-climate-change-trump.
CHAPTER 5
The Grabber-in-Chief
Paul Krugman attacking Bernie Sanders
Paul Krugman, “Sanders over the Edge,” New York Times, April 8, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/08/opinion/sanders-over-the-edge.html.
Paul Krugman, “Weakened at Bernie’s,” New York Times, January 19, 2016, https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/19/weakened-at-bernies/.
How Change Happens, New York Times, Jan 22, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/22/opinion/how-change-happens.html
Paul Krugman, “Bernie’s Bad End,” New York Times, May 2, 2016, https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/bernies-bad-end/.
