Naomi Klein criticises Australia for lack of climate change action

Canadian author, Naomi Klein, at the
Sydney Opera House last year.

The Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein has criticised Australia’s climate change policies after winning the Sydney Peace prize for her work exposing the structural causes of the planet’s climate crisis.

Klein said political action on climate change was lacking “and nowhere more so than Australia”. She has previously described Tony Abbott as a climate change “villain”.

Klein is best known as the author of critiques of unfettered capitalism including No Logo and her work on global warming, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate.

On Saturday the Sydney Peace Foundation, a foundation of the University of Sydney, announced Klein was the winner of the award.

Read The Guardian story - “Naomi Klein criticises lack of global action on climate change after Sydney Peace prize win.”