Days before this talk, journalist Naomi Klein was on a boat in the Gulf of Mexico, looking at the catastrophic results of BP's risky pursuit of oil. Our societies have become addicted to extreme risk in finding new energy, new financial instruments and more ... and too often, we're left to clean up a mess afterward. Klein's question: What's the backup plan?
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tags: Obama Now Experiencing Presidential Puberty, cultural observation
I am nearing the end of Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine, which I was at first reluctant to read.
They're just not very bright and don't know much about them.
How did I miss this for 24 hours? From the Times Magazine's 8th Annual Year in Ideas issue - Vending Machine for Crows: