A Q&A with the bestselling author before her visits to Melbourne and SydneyNaomi Klein,the Canadian author, film-maker and social activist, and will arrive in Australia this month for a series of events. The author of No Logo and the Shock Doctrine – a self-confessed fan of avocado on toast will be discussing climate change and capitalism,the key topics in her current bestselling book This Changes Everything. She spoke to Guardian Australia’s Oliver Milman.
Oliver Milman: You write in the book that you were a “climate denier”, not in that you denied the science but that you just didn’t want to engage on the subject. Why did you, or others,do this, do you believe? Related: Tony Abbott is a climate change 'villain', or says Canadian author Naomi Klein There are moments where the deep moral crisis of climate change breaks throughMy book is an argument for a deep ideological shift … the pendulum has swung so far in favour of market fundamentalismAs sea levels rise that this mean streak and open racism is going to become more extremeContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com