Listening to the Chapo interview with Naomi Klein and getting angry.
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Klein's thesis is based around the assumption that human lebensraum is shrinking as a result of climate change. It's inevitable and imminent, and there is apparently no point in even attempting to protect poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America from destruction.
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The only solution discussed is open borders. There is no conception of the poor people of the world except as refugees. They have no control of their destiny, but will have to be accepted into rich countries as refugees or otherwise wiped out.
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Klein also claims that, without slashing carbon, we will experience +4-6C warming, presumably over the course of the 21st century. This is a ludicrous exaggeration. She cites Kevin Anderson and his tendentious claim that >4C warming "is incompatible with organized civilization."
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This leads into an amazing quote: "With four degrees warming, New York wouldn't exist!". As though the fate of civilization depends on whether Brooklyn survives.
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BRB torching a barrel of oil on my front lawn
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