Summary of Naomi Klein's On Fire

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The hole at the bottom of the ocean is more than an engineering accident or a broken machine. It is a violent wound in the living organism that is Earth itself.
#2 The meeting was tense, but eventually people started laughing. The oil had coated the bottom of the marsh, and there was no way to get it out safely. The people there didn’t trust the government or BP, and they were right not to.
#3 The Gulf Coast’s rich waters and crowded skies will be less alive than they are today. The physical space many communities occupy on the map will also shrink due to erosion. And the coast’s legendary culture will further contract and wither.
#4 The BP oil spill has exposed how little control we have over the natural systems that sustain us. As the town hall meeting in Houma demonstrated, even the most brilliant among us cannot understand or predict the intricacies of nature.

Sujets

• Political Science
• Public Policy
• Environmental Policy

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 12 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822507050
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on Naomi Klein's On Fire
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11 Insights from Chapter 12 Insights from Chapter 13 Insights from Chapter 14 Insights from Chapter 15 Insights from Chapter 16
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The hole at the bottom of the ocean is more than an engineering accident or a broken machine. It is a violent wound in the living organism that is Earth itself.

#2

The meeting was tense, but eventually people started laughing. The oil had coated the bottom of the marsh, and there was no way to get it out safely. The people there didn’t trust the government or BP, and they were right not to.

#3

The Gulf Coast’s rich waters and crowded skies will be less alive than they are today. The physical space many communities occupy on the map will also shrink due to erosion. And the coast’s legendary culture will further contract and wither.

#4

The BP oil spill has exposed how little control we have over the natural systems that sustain us. As the town hall meeting in Houma demonstrated, even the most brilliant among us cannot understand or predict the intricacies of nature.

#5

The idea that nature is a machine for us to reengineer at will is a relatively recent conceit. Until the 1600s, Europeans believed the earth to be alive, full of life-giving powers but also wrathful tempers.

#6

The government’s initial exploration plan for the Deepwater Horizon well reads like a Greek tragedy about human hubris. The phrase little risk appears five times. Even if there is a spill, BP confidently predicts that adverse effects will be minimal.

#7

The response by BP and the government was to continue dumping more oil into the ocean, despite the fact that it was clear the oil was going to continue flowing for months, if not years, and that marine life was dying.

#8

Denial continues to flow in Louisiana, with politicians accusing Obama of killing the one big industry left standing now that fishing and tourism have been affected: deepwater drilling.

#9

The experience of following the oil’s progress through the ecosystem is itself a crash course in deep ecology. We learn that the oil could reach Cuba, Europe, and fishermen all the way up the Atlantic in Canada are worried because the bluefin tuna they catch off their shores are born thousands of miles away in oil-stained Gulf waters.

#10

The most positive outcome of the Gulf oil spill is that it will accelerate the transition to renewable energy sources like wind. We must also fully embrace the precautionary principle in science, which states that when an activity raises threats of harm to the environment or human health, we tread carefully.

#11

The effects of the oil spill are still being felt today, nine years later. Report after report has shown that the spill was a factor in the deaths of at least five thousand mammals, many of them dolphins.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

At the Heartland Institute’s Sixth International Conference on Climate Change, I would hear many people argue that climate change is a plot to steal American freedom.