“After listening to the great farmer-poet Wendell Berry deliver a lecture on how we each have a duty to love our 'homeplace' more than any other, I asked him if he had any advice for rootless people like me and my friends, who disappear into our screens and always seem to be shopping for the perfect community where we should put down our roots. 'Stop somewhere,' he replied. 'And begin the thousand-year-long process of knowing that place. That's good advice on lots of levels, because in order to win this fight of our lives, we all need a place to stand.” ScienceChangeCommunityCapitalismClimate ChangeEcologyPlaceSenseofplaceGreennewdeal Book:On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal Source: On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal
“It seems to me that our problem has a lot less to do with the mechanics of solar power than the politics of human power—specifically whether there can be a shift in who wields it, a shift away from corporations and toward communities, which in turn depends on whether or not the great many people who are getting a rotten deal under our current system can build a determined and diverse enough social force to change the balance of power.” PeopleHumansEnoughProblemSeemsTurnsForceSocialCommunityDealsDependsBalanceCurrentsDeterminedCorporationsGreat MenDiverseMechanicRottenBalance Of PowerHuman PowerSolar Power Book:This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate Source: This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate
“It is our great collective misfortune that the scientific community made its decisive diagnosis of the climate threat at the precise moment when an elite minority was enjoying more unfettered political, cultural, and intellectual power than at any point since the 1920s.” MadeMomentsSciencePoliticalEnjoyCommunityIntellectualThreatClimateMinoritiesCollectivesMisfortunesElitesPreciseDiagnosis Book:This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate Source: This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate
“We live in this culture of endless extraction and disposal: extraction from the earth, extraction from people's bodies, from communities, as if there's no limit, as if there's no consequence to how we're taking and disposing, and as if it can go on endlessly. We are reaching the breaking point on multiple levels. Communities are breaking, the planet is breaking, people's bodies are breaking. We are taking too much.” EarthCultureCommunityConsequenceMultiplePoint Break Author:Naomi Klein
“Real climate solutions are ones that steer these interventions to systematically disperse and devolve power and control to the community level, whether through community-controlled renewable energy, local organic agriculture or transit systems genuinely accountable to their users.” RealEnergyCommunityLevelsSolutionsClimateLocalsControlledUsersAgricultureInterventionSteersRenewable EnergyPower And ControlOrganic Agriculture Author:Naomi Klein
“We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.” SpiritualSpiritualityCommunityBrandsOur Community Author:Naomi Klein
