Naomi Klein Explains Why Clinton's "Corporate Worldview" Cannot Be Ignored

[Ferd Berfel]

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/04/07/naomi-klein-explains-why-clintons-corporate-worldview-cannot-be-ignored

Clinton's historically "pro-corporate ideology" shows she does not have the willingness to take on "fossil fuel companies and the banks that finance them."

Whatever Bernie Sanders thinks of Hillary Clinton's presidential qualifications, the former secretary of state is "uniquely unsuited" to the task of stopping climate change, author and activist Naomi Klein writes in a new op-ed for The Nation .

Combating climate change "requires a willingness to go head-to-head with the two most powerful industries on the planet—fossil fuel companies and the banks that finance them," she writes. "Hillary Clinton is uniquely unsuited to this task."

Among all the uncertainties in the presidential race this year, one thing is certain, Klein says: "The Clinton camp really doesn't like talking about fossil fuel money."

Following her viral face-off with a Greenpeace campaigner last week, Clinton was asked by another climate activist at a Pittsburgh rally on Thursday night if she would reject money from fracking lobbyists—to which Clinton laughed and said, "Read the articles," likely referring to recent reporting by the New York Times and the Washington Post which seemed to debunk the idea that Clinton had taken campaign contributions from oil and gas companies.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

1. this goes right over their heads

now is the time for change

please america - do not let this chance slip away

[Ferd Berfel]

2. Sadly, you may be correct

[Vincardog]

3. Bottom line is: IF we don't reverse direstion NOW on climate change- there is no tomorrow. The plan

Support human life in 50 years.

[Impedimentus]

4. The media gives more coverage to Ivanka Trump's scarves catching fire and the people ...

pay more attention to that kind of balderdash than the approaching climate catastrophe - Same here on DU. There is only one candidate that can help save us.

We are a sick species and our extinction is a near certainty.

FEEL THE BERN - 2016

[Ferd Berfel]

5. Grocho

sort of:

I would never belong to a species that would have me?

[emsimon33]

6. K&R