Biography

Naomi Klein was born on May 8, 1970 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She is a writer and producer, known for This Changes Everything (2015), The Take (2004) and The Shock Doctrine (2007). She is married to Avi Lewis.

Canadian author, journalist and activist.

Ranked #11 in "The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll" by "Prospect" magazine (October 2005).

Daughter of Bonnie Sherr Klein.

The green movement has been obsessed with win-wins for a long time. That usually means wins for the coal company and, supposedly, wins for the climate. So offsetting is a win-win. Those are actually lose-loses. Usually, the people who lose are the most vulnerable: the kids who get asthma living next to the refinery that doesn't get shut down, or the indigenous people who get pushed off their land because their forest got turned into a tree museum by a big green group. The win is for the coal company because they don't have to change. This is often called the strategy of the low-hanging fruit - which means that we're going to do the easy stuff first, and save the hard stuff for later. The big green groups have bee really enamoured with that argument. It's proven disastrous.

Keystone XL is the artery of death!

I think that our brains are wired for story and narrative and sensemaking, and I don't think we have begun to reckon with what it means to swim in a sea of non sequiturs, which is social media, right? It's bad for the brain.