# Quote — Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything

> But before that can happen, it’s clear that a core battle of ideas must be fought about the right of citizens to democratically determine what kind of economy they need. Policies that simply try to harness the power of the market—by minimally taxing or capping carbon and then getting out of the way—won’t be enough. p. 125

- Author: [Naomi Klein](https://www.leafyquotes.com/naomi-klein.md)
- Book: [This Changes Everything](https://www.leafyquotes.com/naomi-klein/this-changes-everything.md)
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> In the hot and stormy future we have already made inevitable through our past emissions, an unshakable belief in the equal rights of all people and a capacity for deep compassion will be the only things standing between civilization and barbarism. p. 462

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> This sense of moral clarity, after so many decades of chummy green partnerships, is the real shock for the extractive industries. p.336

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> With many of the biggest pools of untapped carbon on lands controlled by some of the poorest people on the planet, and with emissions rising most rapidly in what were, until recently, some of the poorest parts of the world, there is simply no credible way forward that does not involve redressing the real roots of poverty. p.418

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