Going green is a silver bullet to our global warming, Islamic terrorism, and globalized outsourcing problems.
Well, I want to rename “green.” I want to rename it geostrategic, geoeconomic, capitalistic and patriotic. I want to do that because I think that living, working, designing, manufacturing and projecting America in a green way can be the basis of a new unifying political movement for the 21st century. A redefined, broader and more muscular green ideology is not meant to trump the traditional Republican and Democratic agendas but rather to bridge them when it comes to addressing the three major issues facing every American today: jobs, temperature and terrorism.
It's a long article, but it's very very persuasive, if you haven't been persuaded already.
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Nothing against Friedman, or you Erik, but the logic of "going green" has been obvious since the first oil shock in the early 1970's.
This is yet another case where all those dirty hippies (who people still like to mock) were, and are, perfectly correct and way, way, ahead of people like Friedman.
If people had listened to Jimmy Carter, for instance, instead of voting him out of office, we'd not be in the mess we are today. We'd be relatively free of the problems of the middle east and it's perfectly reasonable to assume that we could have totally avoided 9/11.
Instead we elected Reagan, and look where we are today.
Guys like Friedman act as if they've just discovered something new. Amazing.
And I love Friedman's opening statement:
"One day Iraq, our post-9/11 trauma and the divisiveness of the Bush years will all be behind us"
All of which he'd like to see behind us was enabled by Friedman at the time, in a non-trivial way given the editorial real estate he commands.
The fervor of the converted.
Friedman then describes the perfect presidential candidate, and he's describing Al Gore.
I could go on and on ... but I'll just say that Friedman is repackaging as "new" ideas that serious thinkers on the left have been advocating for 40 years.
Go Tom Go.
Roland
It would be hard for me to take offense, since ... well, I wasn't here until 1980.
Friedman has a documentary about this tonight on the Discovery Channel by the way.
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