“Don’t Look Up” and Fighting Capitalism With Naomi Klein

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4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

As 2022 begins, the world continues to see the effects of the climate crisis — from the severe drought in East Africa to the odd snowfall in British Columbia. But since December 5, a new film has been sounding the alarm. In Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up,” an allegory about the impending climate disaster, scientists discover an approaching comet that will destroy Earth. But the media, politicians, and elite in the U.S. fail at every opportunity to prevent the impending doom. The Intercept’s senior correspondent Naomi Klein joins senior writer Jon Schwarz to discuss the film, how present-day elites are failing to address the climate crisis, and the future of the climate justice movement. Klein is a professor of climate justice at the University of British Columbia and the author of many books on climate change, including her latest, “How to Change Everything: The Young Human's Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other.” join.theintercept.com/donate/now

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0:00.0	This is intercepted.
0:30.0	I'm John Schwartz, a senior writer with the intercept.
0:37.0	This is the first intercepted episode of 2022.
0:43.0	But here in the new year, we have a lot of these same old problems.
0:47.0	Tonight the number of hospitalizations in this country now setting an all-time record since this pandemic started.
0:53.0	More than 141,000 Americans are now in the hospital.
0:56.0	So many hospitals barely keeping up because so many of their own staff have COVID too.
1:00.0	Afghanistan is on the brink of mass starvation.
1:03.0	Every single Afghan province is considered food insecure or even in crisis.
1:08.0	23 million Afghans need food assistance.
1:12.0	8.7 million are nearing famine.
1:15.0	One million children face acute severe malnutrition and could starve and die this winter.
1:21.0	Far more than died in 20 years of war.
1:24.0	The U.S. labor market experienced an unexpected slowdown heading into the new year.
1:29.0	The U.S. added a disappointing 199,000 new jobs in December.
1:34.0	That's less than half of what economists were projecting for the last jobs report of the year.
1:39.0	At some point soon after finding the suspect, you heard one officer there
1:43.0	by your three shots towards him.
1:45.0	One of those shots hit and killed that man who we now know is 24-year-old Daniel Alena Lopez.
1:50.0	Another one of those shots went through the drywall past Lopez and hit 14-year-old Valentina Oriana Peralta.
1:56.0	That's right. We have COVID.
1:58.0	Catastrophes overseas caused by U.S. foreign policy.
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