{"id":6932,"date":"2015-03-29T08:38:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T13:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6932"},"modified":"2015-03-29T08:38:17","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T13:38:17","slug":"naomi-klein-calls-for-system-change-to-address-climate-and-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6932","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Klein Calls for System Change to Address Climate and Inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/desmog.uk\/2015\/03\/28\/naomi-klein-calls-for-system-change-to-address-climate-and-inequality\" target=\"_blank\">Naomi Klein Calls for System Change to Address Climate and Inequality<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A radically new economic and social system is urgently needed to tackle climate change and address intersecting social justice issues, the internationally bestselling author\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.naomiklein.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Naomi Klein<\/a>\u00a0told activists meeting in London\u00a0today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dquo\">\u201c<\/span>It\u2019s not too late to get off the road, to grab the wheel of history and swerve,\u201d the author of\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thischangeseverything.co\/about.html\" target=\"_blank\">This Changes Everything<\/a><\/em>\u00a0told an audience of more than 1,000 attending a one-day interactive conference on climate change and social justice inspired by her\u00a0book.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dquo\">\u201c<\/span>It is possible to lower our emissions in line with what science is telling us,\u201d she said via Skype. \u201cBut to do that means we need to change everything about our system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Klein argued that individual actions alone aren\u2019t going to bring the level of emission reductions needed to avoid catastrophic climate change. Instead, \u201cwe need to look at large scale policies that make good decisions\u00a0easier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The all-day event held at Friends Meeting House in Euston, London, included breakout workshops and tactic sessions \u2013 while also giving a platform speakers from across the environment and social justice\u00a0movement.<\/p>\n<p>Among those to join the debate were Green Party leader Natalie Bennett, Channel 4 economics editor Paul Mason, and John Broderick, a research fellow at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. There was a consensus among all speakers that bold and broad social change is required to meet the climate\u00a0challenge.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naomi Klein Calls for System Change to Address Climate and Inequality A radically new economic and social system is urgently needed to tackle climate change and address intersecting social justice issues, the internationally bestselling author\u00a0Naomi Klein\u00a0told activists meeting in London\u00a0today. &nbsp; \u201cIt\u2019s not too late to get off the road, to grab the wheel of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[111,113,141,425,1228,4503],"class_list":["post-6932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","tag-capitalism","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-climate-change","tag-inequality","tag-naomi-klein","tag-social-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6933,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6932\/revisions\/6933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}