Fascism or Eco-populism – Our Stark Choice by Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein delivered the Third Annual Distinguished Lecture in Ideas and Organizing. Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author, Professor Klein made the case for the centrality of housing justice to climate justice in the context of California wildfires. Building on her influential argument about disaster capitalism she demonstrated the relationship between such shocks and “end times fascism.” Naomi Klein is a columnist with The Guardian and in 2018 she was named the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair at Rutgers University and is now Honorary Professor of Media and Climate at Rutgers. In September 2021 she joined the University of British Columbia as UBC Professor of Climate Justice (tenured) and co-director of the Centre for Climate Justice.

• Hannah Appel, UCLA Anthropology & Global Studies
• Kian Goh, UCLA Urban Planning

• Ananya Roy, UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy