# Quote — Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything

> The student-led divestment movement has "put the fossil fuel companies’ core business model on trial, arguing that they have become rogue actors whose continued economic viability relies on radical climate destabilization—and that, as such, any institution claiming to serve the public interest has a moral responsibility to liberate itself from these odious profits....[it is] chipping away at the social license with which these companies operate. p.354

- 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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