Change Everything or Face A Global Katrina
Climate Politics and Justice, Climate Science and Impacts, Market Fundamentalism, Naomi Klein
For me, the road to This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
begins in a very specific time and place. The time was exactly ten
years ago. The place was New Orleans, in the aftermath of Hurricane
Katrina. The road in question was flooded and littered with bodies.
Today I am posting, for the first time, the entire section on Hurricane
Katrina from my last book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster
Capitalism. Rereading the chapter 10 years after the events transpired, I
am struck most by this fact: the same military equipment and
contractors used against New Orleans’ Black residents have since been
used to militarize police across the United States, contributing to the
epidemic of murders of unarmed Black men and women. That is one way in
which the Disaster Capitalism Complex perpetuates itself and protects
its lucrative market.
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