Summary of Naomi Klein's On Fire

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#1 The hole at the bottom of the ocean is more than an engineering accident or a broken machine. It is a violent wound in the living organism that is Earth itself.

#2 The meeting was tense, but eventually people started laughing. The oil had coated the bottom of the marsh, and there was no way to get it out safely. The people there didn’t trust the government or BP, and they were right not to.

#3 The Gulf Coast’s rich waters and crowded skies will be less alive than they are today. The physical space many communities occupy on the map will also shrink due to erosion. And the coast’s legendary culture will further contract and wither.

#4 The BP oil spill has exposed how little control we have over the natural systems that sustain us. As the town hall meeting in Houma demonstrated, even the most brilliant among us cannot understand or predict the intricacies of nature.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822507050

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Insights on Naomi Klein's On Fire

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The hole at the bottom of the ocean is more than an engineering accident or a broken machine. It is a violent wound in the living organism that is Earth itself.

#2

The meeting was tense, but eventually people started laughing. The oil had coated the bottom of the marsh, and there was no way to get it out safely. The people there didn’t trust the government or BP, and they were right not to.

#3

The Gulf Coast’s rich waters and crowded skies will be less alive than they are today. The physical space many communities occupy on the map will also shrink due to erosion. And the coast’s legendary culture will further contract and wither.

#4

The BP oil spill has exposed how little control we have over the natural systems that sustain us. As the town hall meeting in Houma demonstrated, even the most brilliant among us cannot understand or predict the intricacies of nature.

#5

The idea that nature is a machine for us to reengineer at will is a relatively recent conceit. Until the 1600s, Europeans believed the earth to be alive, full of life-giving powers but also wrathful tempers.

#6

The government’s initial exploration plan for the Deepwater Horizon well reads like a Greek tragedy about human hubris. The phrase little