# Quote — Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything

> … if climate justice carries the day, the economic costs to our elites will be real—not only because of the carbon left in the ground but also because of the regulations, taxes, and social programs needed to make the required transformation. Indeed, these new demands on the ultra rich could effectively bring the era of the footloose Davos oligarch to a close. p. 457

- 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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