SOURCE: Ed Wagner (ed.j.wagner@gmail.com)
SUBHEAD: Author Naomi Klein delivers inspiring speech at University of Hawaii faulting HECO for blocking solar energy.
By Nathan Eagle on 26 February 2015 for Civil Beat -
(http://www.civilbeat.com/2015/02/renowned-climate-change-author-faults-heco-for-blocking-solar/)
Image above: From (http://www.theguardian.com/books/naomi-klein).
Award-winning journalist Naomi Klein blamed Hawaiian Electric Co. for limiting the progress of solar energy during a motivating speech Thursday evening at the University of Hawaii.
Klein, the author of the New York Times bestseller “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism,” packed not one but two auditoriums on campus. The overflow crowd watched a live video of her on a giant screen in one room as others watched live in another room.
“The profit motive is getting in the way of the transition that people want here,” Klein said, garnering applause.
She also stressed the need for the state to avoid getting hooked on liquefied natural gas, something HECO and politicians are moving toward despite all the warnings.
Rep. Cynthia Thielen introduced a measure to block LNG, noting the $200 million price tag to switch to a foreign-supplied fuel. Her bill stresses the need to put that money toward renewables, but it never received a hearing in the Legislature before dying this session.
She covered a wide range of topics related to climate change and capitalism during her talk, which wrapped up with a Q&A session. She touted recent successes on the national level, such as President Obama vetoing the Keystone pipeline bill, and the local level, like Maui voters passing a ballot measure to place a moratorium on GMO farming despite seed companies spending millions of dollars to defeat it.
Klein has been serving as the Dai Ho Chun distinguished chair in Arts & Sciences at UH Manoa. Her speech centered on the theme of new book, “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate,” another bestseller.
Her speech is expected to be aired multiple times on Olelo Community Media TV stations.
HECO must be non-profit
By Ed Wagner on 27 February 2015 in Island Breath -
(http://islandbreath.blogspot.com/2015/02/klein-at-uh-on-heco.html)
Video above: This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate - Naomi Klein's book trailer. From (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPQI1Lui42c). Is Earth Fucked? The answer is a resounding YES!
This is what both HECOgate and HARTgate have done to us and will continue to do to us if HECO is not converted to public, non-profit power, and heads rolled at HART and the City Council, and the responsible individuals sent to prison for their crimes against the people and against Mother Earth because of their insatiable lust for and idolatry or worship of money as the sole source of gratification in life.
These people have sold their souls to the devil. The economies of the world and the Earth itself are being destroyed by rampant and uncontrolled capitalism with the goal of money at all costs.
The ratepayers must organize a massive march and rally at the Capitol to stop this madness before it is too late.
Ms. Klein's book should be required reading for the PUC, DCA, Governor, Legislature, Energy Administrator, AG, city and state Ethics Commissioners, Mayor and City Council on all islands and more.
“The profit motive is getting in the way of the transition that people want here,” Klein said, garnering applause.
This is precisely the reason why the HECO monopoly is a very serious threat to state and national security.
http://www.hawaii.edu/calendar/manoa/2015/02/26/25395.html?et_id=33438
http://www.naomiklein.org/main
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SUBHEAD: Author Naomi Klein delivers inspiring speech at University of Hawaii faulting HECO for blocking solar energy.
By Nathan Eagle on 26 February 2015 for Civil Beat -
(http://www.civilbeat.com/2015/02/renowned-climate-change-author-faults-heco-for-blocking-solar/)
Image above: From (http://www.theguardian.com/books/naomi-klein).
Award-winning journalist Naomi Klein blamed Hawaiian Electric Co. for limiting the progress of solar energy during a motivating speech Thursday evening at the University of Hawaii.
Klein, the author of the New York Times bestseller “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism,” packed not one but two auditoriums on campus. The overflow crowd watched a live video of her on a giant screen in one room as others watched live in another room.
“The profit motive is getting in the way of the transition that people want here,” Klein said, garnering applause.
She also stressed the need for the state to avoid getting hooked on liquefied natural gas, something HECO and politicians are moving toward despite all the warnings.
Rep. Cynthia Thielen introduced a measure to block LNG, noting the $200 million price tag to switch to a foreign-supplied fuel. Her bill stresses the need to put that money toward renewables, but it never received a hearing in the Legislature before dying this session.
She covered a wide range of topics related to climate change and capitalism during her talk, which wrapped up with a Q&A session. She touted recent successes on the national level, such as President Obama vetoing the Keystone pipeline bill, and the local level, like Maui voters passing a ballot measure to place a moratorium on GMO farming despite seed companies spending millions of dollars to defeat it.
Klein has been serving as the Dai Ho Chun distinguished chair in Arts & Sciences at UH Manoa. Her speech centered on the theme of new book, “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate,” another bestseller.
Her speech is expected to be aired multiple times on Olelo Community Media TV stations.
HECO must be non-profit
By Ed Wagner on 27 February 2015 in Island Breath -
(http://islandbreath.blogspot.com/2015/02/klein-at-uh-on-heco.html)
Video above: This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate - Naomi Klein's book trailer. From (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPQI1Lui42c). Is Earth Fucked? The answer is a resounding YES!
This is what both HECOgate and HARTgate have done to us and will continue to do to us if HECO is not converted to public, non-profit power, and heads rolled at HART and the City Council, and the responsible individuals sent to prison for their crimes against the people and against Mother Earth because of their insatiable lust for and idolatry or worship of money as the sole source of gratification in life.
These people have sold their souls to the devil. The economies of the world and the Earth itself are being destroyed by rampant and uncontrolled capitalism with the goal of money at all costs.
The ratepayers must organize a massive march and rally at the Capitol to stop this madness before it is too late.
Ms. Klein's book should be required reading for the PUC, DCA, Governor, Legislature, Energy Administrator, AG, city and state Ethics Commissioners, Mayor and City Council on all islands and more.
“The profit motive is getting in the way of the transition that people want here,” Klein said, garnering applause.
This is precisely the reason why the HECO monopoly is a very serious threat to state and national security.
http://www.hawaii.edu/calendar/manoa/2015/02/26/25395.html?et_id=33438
http://www.naomiklein.org/main
.
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