Naomi Klein, Guardian UK, Climate Change Is Intergenerational Theft. That's Why My Son Is Part of This Story

Naomi made a movie about the loss of one of the wonders of the world, the Great Barrier Reef.  Beautifully spoken of the loss we all feel, a kind of hopelessness that anyone with children and grandchildren feels if they know the ecological score in this corporate-made catastrophe the rulers have foisted on us all.

    Yet I still struggle with a nagging feeling that I’m not doing justice to the enormous stakes of this threat. The safety and habitability of our shared home is intensely emotional terrain, triggering perfectly rational feelings of loss, fear and grief. Yet climate discourse is usually pretty clinical, weighed down with statistics and policy jargon.
    All that information is important, of course. But I have started to worry that, by being so calm and clinical, we may be tacitly sending the message that this isn’t really an existential emergency after all. If it were, wouldn’t the people raising the alarm sound more … alarmed? Wouldn’t we share more of our own emotions?

                                                                             Naomi Klein November 2016

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