Naomi Klein

Consumerism is one of the biggest and most difficult problems the world faces today. The high demand in trending products, as well as food, has led to more challenging problems. Naomi Klein in her book, No Logo, talks about the poor treatment workers receive at the Export Processing Zones (EPZs), which is where brand companies produce all their products in a much cheaper way. Besides workers at EPZs, there are also people who work at the slaughterhouses and are mistreated as well. Eric Schlosser…

than enough of it. Manufacturers believed the best way to make a profit was to make more things, and it turned out that the key to making a profit was not in manufacturing, it was actually in marketing. The way you sell a product to a consumer. Naomi Klein a Canadian journalist writes in her work “No Logo” that “what these companies produced…

Transition: From Apartheid to Neoliberalism in South Africa.” Pietermaritzburg: UKZN Press. Pp. 15-24 Callinicos, Alex. 1996. “South Africa After Apartheid”. International Socialism. Quarterly journal of the Socialist Workers Party: Britain. Issue 70. Klein, Naomi. 2012. “The Shock Doctrine.” Pp 215. Accessed from www.anotherangryvoice.blogspot.co.za. Accessed on 24 February 2016 at 3:43 pm. Nyere, Julius. K. 2008. “Ujamaa: The basis of African Socialism.” In Geschiere, P.; Meyer, B.; & Pels,…

According to Abramovitz (2014), the post-World War II welfare state was the “golden age of capitalism” (p.4). During this period actual income and living standard rose for everyone, the inequality gap between poor and rich become narrower, the middle-class dream of a good job and a good home became more of a reality, more employment and equal opportunity were created, better wage and good benefits were introduced for the workers and sexual equality and civil rights movements were steady. “The…

Final Essay Have you ever imagined what would happen if the ozone layer was utterly destroyed and the amount of sun rays reaching the earth dramatically increased? In Naomi’s Klein book, This Changes Everything, the author elucidates how the increasing awareness of the adverse effects of extractive processes on the environment has triggered the formation of many environmental movements. Blockadia is one of the most recent movements that has adopted a different strategy compared to earlier ones.…

Stuff, she elaborates on how consumption affects the environment. The http://www.verdant.net/society.htm article “Why Overcoming Consumerism?” discusses how consumerism effects society and the environment. Naomi Klein explains how corporations take advantage of and manipulate their consumers. Klein also goes into detail on how…

Video Assignment: “The Merchants of Cool” Assignment What do these quotes mean? The comments from the video “The Merchants of Cool” summarize many of the important ideas expressed in the video. In your answers, include AT LEAST 2 sentences: one sentence that explains the quote and another sentence that expresses your opinion about the concept. 1) "The paradox of ‘cool hunting’ is that it kills what it finds." -Douglas Rushkoff • According to Douglas in the video the…

In the essay by Naomi Klein called “No Logo” she says “For the most part, the ad campaigns at the end of the nineteenth century and the start of the twentieth used a set rigid, pseudo scientific formulas: Rivals were mentioned, ad copy used declarative statements only…” (779)…

The article ‘Is geoengineering a bad idea?’, by Karl Mathiesen, is about techniques that could be used to reduce the effects of climate change. The two techniques are, carbon dioxide removal and albedo modification. The first is self-explanatory, remove carbon in the atmosphere and put it underground. The second technique makes the earth more reflective so the warming by the sun isn’t as intense. Interestingly enough, increasing the earth reflection could be possible right now, but may lead to…

Leopold II solely for his personal gains in the Congo; all these unfortunate events in history share one thing in common, personal greed that arose from capitalistic intentions. The Shock Doctrine, also known as ‘Disaster Capitalism’ as stated by Naomi Klein in her book, has been put into practice all over the world for decades supported by Jeffrey Sachs, and Milton Friedman and his infamous band…