It's not that one sphere is more important than the other. It's that we have to do both: the local and the global. The resistance and the alternative… - Naomi Klein

With the tentacles of branding reaching into every crevice of youth culture, leaching brand-image content not only out of street styles like hip-hop but psychological attitudes like ironic detachment, the cool hunt has had to go further afield to find unpilfered space and that left only one frontier: the past.

Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.

If the world’s largest economy looked poised to show that kind of visionary leadership, other major emitters — like the European Union, China, and India — would almost certainly find themselves under intense pressure from their own populations to follow suit.