Video: Let Them Drown
The Violence of Othering in a Warming World
Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein examines how Said's ideas of racial hierarchy, including Orientalism, have been the silent partners to climate change since the earliest days of the steam engine, continuing to present day decisions to let entire nations drown and others warm to lethal levels. The lecture looks at how Said’s bold universalist vision might form the basis for a response to climate change grounded in radical inclusion, belonging and restorative justice.
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Online Extra · 4 May 2016 » Naomi Klein » Video: Let Them Drown
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