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Dark Money author Jane Mayer on The Dangers of President Pence, New Yorker, Oct. 23 issue on-line

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"Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America" see: our site, and George Monbiot's essay on this key book by historian Nancy MacLean.

Full interview with The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer March 29, 2017, Democracy Now! about her article, "The Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump Presidency: How Robert Mercer Exploited America’s Populist Insurgency."

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The Economics of Happiness -- shorter version

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September 10, 2014

Naomi Klein to Degrowth Conference: Climate Change Can Deliver 'People's Shock'

"Status quo is not an option if we are to rein in runaway emissions, This Changes Everything author says in address to conference."

By Andrea Germanos, staff writer. Published on September 03, 2014 by Common Dreams

"You're having the core conversation of our time."

"That was the message delivered on Tuesday by author Naomi Klein to participants of a conference whose focus is on "concrete steps towards a society beyond the imperative of growth."

Klein's opening address to the Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, which kicked off Tuesday in the German city of Leipzig, made perfect sense, as the themes of her new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate, overlap those of the conference â€” that addressing the climate crisis is incompatible with the current growth-focused economy.

"The premise from which my book begins is one that I think we all pretty much agree on," Klein said, "that when it comes to addressing the climate crisis, we ... have failed catastrophically."

The world's track records on climate action "are not something to be proud of," she said, and they have set us on on a trajectory to live in a world that could see as much as a 6-degree rise in temperature from pre-industrial levels.

The "status quo is not an option," Klein said. "Radical change of some kind, whether physical or political, are our only options left."

"This is why the climate crisis challenges centrist liberals most of all because they subscribe to an ideology that is so resistant to the idea of radical change, to the idea of anything but incremental, reformist change." ...
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Naomi Klein's talk is available with the Common Dreams article.

Video from the conference is at http://leipzig.degrowth.org/en/livestream/

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