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Naomi Klein escalates rhetoric on tech billionaires and climate collapse

The author says techbros are accelerating climate crisis deliberately and compares AI to eugenics in a moment of rare escalation.

newest coverage 10d agosummary written 10d ago3 pieces230 likes & upvotes5 comments Mastodon

What to know

  • Naomi Klein has escalated her language to call tech billionaires 'traitors to creation' for deliberately accelerating climate collapse.
  • Commenters extend her critique to frame AI as a labor-elimination tool equivalent to systemic health inequality.
  • The conversation reflects despair about the loss of shared belief in a viable future.
many voices

Tech billionaires deliberately accelerate climate collapse and use AI to eliminate labor as a form of eugenics.

  • “techbros truly believe they will survive the climate collapse they are accelerating, very on purpose.”

    blogdiva@mastodon.social · Mastodon ↗
some voices

The connection between wealth and pathology requires careful reasoning about correlation versus causation.

  • “Correlation is not causation”

    irene@discuss.systems · Mastodon ↗

Naomi Klein Author and climate critic

How it unfolded 3 developments, newest first · click a bar or a number to jump posts

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    Naomi Klein escalates language on tech billionaires and climate

    Klein states she has "earned the right to escalate" her rhetoric, calling tech billionaires "traitors to creation" for their role in accelerating climate collapse. She characterizes the moment as one where anger at the situation is insufficient given the profound loss of belief in a shared future.

    “The moment we're in, people are really mad and however mad you are, it's not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They're traitors to creation.”
    — Naomi Klein
    • phanecak@mastodon.social

      “I don’t tend to use this language, I try to be measured, but I think I’ve earned the right to escalate,” she says. “The moment we’re in, people are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world…

      phanecak@mastodon.socialMastodon10d agoview on Mastodon ↗
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    Commenter questions causation between wealth and pathology

    Another Mastodon user responds with skepticism, suggesting that extreme wealth accumulation may correlate with derangement but cautioning against assuming causation.

    “Or only the deranged accumulate extreme wealth?”
    — irene@discuss.systems
    • irene@discuss.systems

      RE: https:// kolektiva.social/@EricLawton/1 17258480135359994 Or only the deranged accumulate extreme wealth? 🤔 Correlation is not causation

      irene@discuss.systemsMastodon11d agoview on Mastodon ↗
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    Mastodon users connect Klein's critique to AI and eugenics

    A commenter on Mastodon elaborates on Klein's framing, arguing that techbros believe they will survive the climate collapse they are deliberately accelerating, and positioning AI as a labor-elimination tool comparable to systemic health inequality.

    “AI is to labor what USA's health insurance is to health care: eugenics the death cult of billionaires…”
    — blogdiva@mastodon.social
    • blogdiva@mastodon.social

      RE: https:// kolektiva.social/@EricLawton/1 17258480135359994 Canadians have, literally, vantage point to evaluate the United States’ proclivities. i consider myself a Cassandra but Naomi Klein takes seeing the future American fascists want but obfuscate, to a whole different level of CLARITY. techbros truly believe they will survive the climate…

      blogdiva@mastodon.socialMastodon11d ago230▲view on Mastodon ↗

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