Chamber of Commerce Thomas Donohue called the Green New Deal “ a Trojan horse for socialism.” In February, eight years later, chief executive officer of the U.S. While attending a conference for the Heartland Institute in 2011, Klein heard one attendee declare climate change is “a Trojan horse designed to abolish capitalism and replace it with some kind of eco-socialism,” she writes. It requires that we actually increase taxes on the wealthy.” “It requires that we regulate corporations. “That requires massive investments in the public sphere, exactly what these free-market think tanks have been railing against for some 50 years,” she says. Author Naomi Klein (Courtesy of Julia Prosser)įree market think tanks like the Heartland Institute and the Heritage Foundation are weakening the fight against climate change by championing corporate deregulation and low taxes for the wealthy, she says. In her new book ' On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal,” Klein writes that allegiance to capitalism is at the heart of climate denial. Klein has an inconvenient truth for climate deniers who oppose the economic changes that scientists and activists say are necessary to reduce the risk of environmental catastrophe: A government takeover of business is necessary to combat climate change.

'On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal' by Naomi Klein (Allison Hagan/Here & Now) This article is more than 3 years old.Ĭlimate change denial is not driven by rogue scientists who disagree with their peers - author Naomi Klein says - but rather free-market capitalists who want to protect the economic status quo.

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