'I don’t hold myself up as any kind of model for work-life balance. I feel a genuine terror about how little time we have. I feel that incredibly intensely and have ever since I have started to listen to the climate clock'
Naomi Klein. Illustration: Lauren Tamaki Doing the Most is a special series about ambition — how we define it, harness it, and conquer it.
Journalist, writer, and activist Naomi Klein is the author of seven books, including No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, and This Changes Everything. Over the past 20 years, she’s reported from the front lines of progressive movements from Occupy Wall Street and beyond, and is known for her unflinching critique of capitalism and globalization. Recently, Klein has turned her attention to climate change.
I’ve been on the road with young climate organizers on this book tour, and one thing I keep hearing is that they should not be doing this. They’re spending every recess, every lunch hour, every weekend, trying to save their future. And so my message right now is like, fuck your work-life balance.
The truth is that I think that this kind of corporate framing of self care is almost palliative. I don’t think it’s truly rejuvenating. For me, time spent with friends and in the community, including in movements, is much more sustaining. The time that I spend on book tour with local climate organizers, particularly young people, reminds me why I do this work, and it gives me an incredible jolt of energy.Like I said, I don’t hold myself up as a model.
But with where we’re at right now, in the climate crisis, I’ve been thinking a lot about the problem of being too calm. A lot of women in the public eye, women of my generation, trained ourselves to keep a pretty tight lid on our public expressions of rage and grief. And I don’t think that’s helpful in the moment that we’re in. I’ve been thinking a lot about how to unlearn those skills, because I truly don’t give a shit whether I’m taken seriously by people I don’t respect.
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