Naomi Klein Quotes

If one day I look out from my cabin's porch and see a row of windmills spinning in the distance, I won't curse them. I will praise them. It will mean we are finally getting somewhere.

Development must be such that it positively transforms the lives of the common people.

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.

Transformation in the world happens when people are healed and start investing in other people.

I love to use technology to help people have better lives and to reduce our impact on the planet.

At its very heart, Worldchanging is about using the best of people's new ideas, bringing them together and applying them to the massive problems that we all face.

We need to forge a whole new energy and American Dream.

Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.

The old rules may say we can’t protect our environment and promote economic growth at the same time, but in America, we’ve always used new technologies - we’ve used science; we’ve used research and development and discovery to make the old rules obsolete.

There seems scarcely any limit to what could be done in the way of producing a good world, if only men would use science wisely.

Environmentalists and clean energy champions should stop telling people that we are working for "sustainability," which nobody understands.

The most important question of the 21st century is not what or how much, it is 'How?' How do you propose to turn your good ideas into positive changes in other people's lives? You must be the 'how generation.'

As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.

Not every change is an improvement but every improvement is a change; you can't do anything BETTER unless you can manage to do it DIFFERENTLY, you've got to let yourself do better than other people!

Too often we think about the green economy as an elite market niche, one in which affluent people spend more money to consume greener and cleaner products.

We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin.

We can't impede progress in the name of environmental action that yields little for the environment and even less for our people.. and we should look at the environment as an economic opportunity.

You can get really far by putting your ideas out there and letting other people build on them.

I think that the environment is very a complicated question. I am very sympathetic to people who support the environment who live in the United States. I am very sympathetic to people who don't support the environment who live in a very poor country.

I think change is always a good thing. Change keeps things moving.

If we make consistent effort, based on proper education, we can change the world.

We have to create a sustainable environment, worldwide, and we're not doing it. The best thing we can do with the rest of this century is aggressively acquire - and put aside - the richest natural reserves that we can, and then do our best to manage the needs and desires of the 11 billion people we expect to have by the end of the century. This is where biology is headed. For that reason, the sooner we get on with mapping biodiversity on Earth, the better off biology will be - not to mention the whole subject of saving it before we carelessly throw it away.

It's a very important issue to me, trying to wake people up to the fact that we'd better take better care of our planet.

While in some cases the damage already done may well be irreversible, in many other cases it can still be halted. It is necessary, however, that the entire human community - individuals, States and international bodies - take seriously the responsibility that is theirs.

We do not have to choose between a healthy environment and a healthy economy.