Naomi Klein: the year when people yelled ‘Fire!’
by Naomi Klein from Environment | The Guardian on (#XS77)
From climate change to police violence and the refugee crisis, "this was the year "when ordinary people stood up to declare an emergency, writes the author and activist in an extract from the foreword of The Bedside Guardian 2015"
What do we do when our political leaders treat profound moral crises as if they are nothing extraordinary? Nothing to see here, move along?
What if a supposedly ho-hum phenomenon is actually an existential threat to our species? How do we wrench the script away from those in power and sound the alarm?
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