Naomi Klein

Jag har inte sett till Naomi Klein i den svenska vänsterdebatten på bra länge. Idag såg jag en intervju med henne i The Atlantic om ”climate change”. Hon säger bl a:

I’ve spent a fair bit of time hanging out with some of the hardcore climate deniers. And I think they’re very open about the fact that what brought them to this issue is not that they discovered a problem with climate science. It’s that they look at what the science is saying and they realize that if the science is true, it would upend their ideological project—because their ideological project calls for deregulation, austerity cuts, privatization of the public sphere, deregulated free trade. And if you just glance at the kinds of policies we would need in order to take the science seriously, it would mean strong regulations of the corporate sector; it would mean big investments in the public sphere to prepare ourselves for heavy weather and to lower our emissions rapidly. It would also mean transfers of wealth, which they’re not very big fans of.

So they’re faced with the problem that either the science is true and their ideology is in deep trouble, or the science must be a vast conspiracy and there ideology is fine. And they’ve chosen the latter for obvious reasons. But I do believe they understand that if we were to take the science seriously it would require upending the neoliberal consensus

Av intervjun framgår klart att det omvända också gäller dvs att för henne är klimatfrågan i första hand ett argument för en kommunistisk världsordning:

Climate Change Is an Opportunity to Dramatically Reinvent the Economy.