Things are pretty shocking out there right now — record-breaking storms, deadly terror attacks, thousands of migrants disappearing beneath the waves and openly supremacist movements rising. Are we responding with the urgency that these overlapping crises demand from us? Journalist and activist Naomi Klein studies how governments use large-scale shocks to push societies backward. She shares a few propositions from "The Leap" — a manifesto she wrote alongside indigenous elders, climate change activists, union leaders and others from different backgrounds — which envisions a world after we've already made the transition to a clean economy and a much fairer society. "The shocking events that fill us with dread today can transform us, and they can transform the world for the better," Klein says. "But first we need to picture the world that we're fighting for. And we have to dream it up together."
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To answer the question, just consider the Arab Spring :0
Was that positive or negative change?
It was an engineered event.
It’s an ongoing process
You all haven’t watched the full video me neither
Antidemocratic forces push society back? WTF is she talking about? That was really stupid sentence, couldn’t watch it further, lol.
i think she ment totalitarian
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Ин тел she means elite minorities impose changes the majority do not favour, antidemocratic.
they get away with it on a greater scale when there is a smoke screen created by some kind of calamity, her proposed ‘shock doctrine’ one example she cites is Milton Friedman advising bush not to rebuild state schools in the wake of hurricane Katrina, the people wake up to a recovery in which there are only private schools.
It gets more sinister when the shock is purposefully administered, and whilst reeling from this the public majority have further injustices imposed on them, as in south america.
It’s always funny to see which bills get passed, here in germany, during the soccer world championship.
She’s talking about Trump, although she never said his name. And the “shocking event” she’s talking about is Trump presidency.
i so excted after i listened this video!!! ^-^ 🙂
What climate change?
Oh, you’re talking about weather.
Irek Cz. What percentage of temperature rise over the last decade is due to human activity?
Please break it down by industrial activity and use of fossil fuels.
This should be easy for you to find.
“Scientific theory isn’t defined by consensus. ” actually it is by scientific research papers consensus…. So you are mistaken… you say that i dont sound smart but you write pure bullshit…
Irek Cz. You’re at it again.
A scientific theory is an explanation of an aspect of the natural world that can be repeatedly tested, in accordance with the scientific method, using a predefined protocol of observation and experiment.
Now, in the “scientific method” the last step is communicate results but that is not at all the same thing.
Where are the numbers I asked for?
The last step? Its the last step in a single research only…
I dont have those numbers and i wont even bother to look for them… i spent too much time already playing with people like you that will call every research i send them a fake or just plainly ignore it or stop responding… If you are at a level where you trust oil companies more than people who spend their lives really testing this then im sure you wont get your reason back from my comments alone… there are much much smarter and more eloquent people than me that cant convince people like you so im basically wasting time here… still i wont waste more that on writing comments…
Irek Cz I’ve read all your comments and they are fucking hilarious, you obviously have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about. You’ve been brainwashed mate, perhaps you’ve been listening to social engineers like Naomi Klein far to often I don’t know.
Even a modicum of research will reveal what a hoax it’s been ever since the ridiculous notion that man can save an ailing planet was first muted, back in the 80’s. It’s taken so long to get near enforcing the changes and rules, the powers that shouldn’t be, want to see implemented to combat what was back in the 90’s dubbed, ‘Global Warming’. Because back then everyone still had a sense of humour and just fell about laughing it was so dumb.
Over the ensuing years a bottomless oil rich fund has slowly but surely brainwashed several generations and been deleting real science in favour of political science (scientism). Scientist who go against the climate consensus are marginalised and have their funding cut, so naturally they keep quiet. But there’s still not one peer reviewed paper that supports anthropogenic climate change. A 97% consensus means absolutely zilch, if there is no peer reviewed papers. Isn’t it obvious what’s going on?
Do you know who is behind this hoax? Yes mate as I said earlier Big Oil. Of course this is not apparent until you dig below the main stream fairy story as told by this disgusting woman. David Rockefeller backed by the Rothschild and fronted by another oil magnet Maurice Strong a very strange character indeed, started and funded this rubbish, as a covert way of implementing global governance and total enslavement.
Think about it, as this witch says a crisis can cause rapid changes. It doesn’t matter if the crisis is real or not, it’s perceptions that count. That’s why the powers that shouldn’t be are forever scare mongering about what’s going to happen if we don’t do as they say. Which now involves paying carbon tax to an oversized out of control UN so they can dictate who and who cannot have access to power, who can travel etc.
If, as is looking more and more likely, they fail to implement the desired changes via ‘Climate Change’. Don’t be surprised if the next attempt to bring us all together under the umbrella of one World government will be an ‘alien invasion’ scare. You’ll probably be on board with that as well you’re so gullible
Maybe people aren’t freaking out because they recognize how objectively better the world is today… the danger of 500 tiki torch bearing internet trolls is ridiculous on the global scale. The world is better today than yesterday by every metric that matters and we’re on our way to eliminating abject poverty around the world. Just see what we’ve done in 20 years. Maybe show a little appreciation.
And what a goofily simplistic view of the great depression to blame laissez faire economics…
The exception may be the increased risk of climate change.
Are you a white male? sounds like it. leading a priveledge life can make a person lack understanding of social issues. 500 tiki torches represent the white supremacy movement getting warmed up.
Life expectancy in the US is going down. That is a quite important metric, wouldn’t you say?
It’s Steven Pinker’s argument that the world is getting better, which I have no objection. But I have to say the elimination of poverty in the past 20 years was mostly done in China, not US.
I’m Brazilian born in the US. Not white. But that’s irrelevant to the objective reality of how amazing this world is. We’ve gone from 43% of the world in abject poverty to 21% in 21 years. Those “white supremacist” are only relevant because of comments like yours. I’m not a “brown body” and you’re not a “white body.” The world is amazing and racism is ridiculously irrelevant to my life and I live in the south. Grow up. I’m more than the color of my skin and so are you.
You never know who they mean by “we”.
it’s short for weed
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We as in “the elite”, as in the only people who ever profit off disasters and both sides of the wars they create.
False flag tutorial video
You and your stupid utopian vision you have to deal with reality if someone obtains a doctorate deree and someone doesn’t graduate high school, there’s going to be unequalness don’t you get it. Wake up from your dilution and deal with reality!
OCASM what if you’re born into poverty with no decent schools nearby and no hope of education? How are you expected to ‘earn you’re own money’ in an increasingly complex economy that requires highly skilled labour?
Drew Whitfield No, universal basic income pays the doctor the same $$$ as the janitor.
mhtinla sure but as I explained, their jobs allow them to earn on top of this and a doctor would earn more than a janitor. Basic income allows people like the janitor to have all the security of being on welfare while still contributing to society
OCASM you can believe whatever you want and even if we assume its morally ok to have that much inequality it still doesnt matter because it will soner or later end in a market crash and everynone but the richest lose on that… JUst as we could agree that giving everyone 1 million dollars would be nice but it is not smart to do that the same case is with that amount of inequality.
If you don’t want to help the unfortunate, then you are setting yourself up to be surrounded by unfortunate, desperate people. Is that the kind of country you want to live in?
Let’s solve all the world’s problems with government fiat, made possible by decreeing all the totalitarian measures that would be required, population controls, caps and consumption, eliminating low IQ parts of the population, because that’s exactly what we should be striving for right, TED?
calm down, triggered cuckservative, calm down.
You have nicely summed up the problems associated with salvation by government power.
I will calm down when a TED proposer comes out with the honest social solutions, along with the sheer technological innovations that involves more than AI and code.
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Why is “The God Emperor” projecting on you?
Antifa is a gift that keeps giving to the right.
Noam Chomsky said that.
What’s the difference between her “The Leap” movement and Hillary Clinton’s “Resistance” PAC? Is it just another silo trying to ride the anti-Trump wave and score political points?
I hope the shoking event is with her, to see how positive it can be.
Pure progressive bullshit. The 1929 crash was caused by the government and the policies implemented to “help” actually made it worse.
Her manifesto: “give us free stuff!”
I remember another “Leap” proposed by the Left in the 20th century. That one turned out great, didn’t it?
She’s just a dirty commie.
Naomi Klein… she is good. Events are both government and citizens’ responsibility.
Acts of Seventh Yes, it’s the citizens fault for giving their government that much power.
1:15 she’s talking about the push to overthrow a duly elected President in 2016
3:48 she’s talking about the pushback from Constitutional authorities against the globalist and special interest effort to dissolve the authority of the United States of America aimed at accumulating power into the hands of international elites.
Another multiculturalist/progressive propaganda?
Watcha doin (((TED))) ?