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Tom Friedman Calls For Green Revolution watch!

huffingtonpost.com — The book's main argument is that the convergence of global warming, global flattening (the rise of middle classes all over the world), and global crowding (the population boom) is driving five key trends that will define the 21st century.

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  • jmichaelwarner, on 07/05/2008, -1/+8Interesting, scary, yet exciting!
    • sanman, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1Excellent presentation. But I disagree that revolutionary energy solutions will only come from 100,000 Dean Kamens in 100,000 garages. That's from the biased perspective of the small inventor. When it comes to a fusion power source, etc, then that will have to come from a large/multi-national collaborative project. No garage tinkerer is going to discover the Higgs Boson, or invent nuclear fusion with his ***** fusor. Oh, they can come up with better, smaller wind turbines and solar panels - fine. But there is nothing mutually exclusive about doing the large collaborative projects alongside the 100,000 inventors thing.
      • Abram730, on 07/10/2008, -0/+1Interesting because it's important... scary cause if we ***** up we are all ***** up and exciting because if you can turn quite a profit on free... Did I come close?
  • cassler, on 07/05/2008, -1/+4Sounds like the natural follow up to Lexus and the Olive Branch and The World is Flat - bring on the green industrial revolution.
    • g1rrrrlvynil, on 07/06/2008, -1/+1Ralph Nader is better
    • treas, on 07/06/2008, -3/+2Tom Friedman can suck my balls. He gave a speech at my university and he took it as an hour and a half of free advertising for "the world is flat".
      • KhanneaNL, on 07/06/2008, -1/+4Your kind will be quoted and scorned in the future.
  • Redge, on 07/05/2008, -4/+16Let's face it, we failed. We needed that revolution 50 years ago! If we realy want to survive, we need to stop investing in stupid military ***** and start investing in our future...
    • soupdawg30, on 07/06/2008, -4/+3Military is the future.
    • known, on 07/06/2008, -3/+3Let's get our government budget endorsed or approved by UN!
  • ThatsNotPudding, on 07/05/2008, -10/+8Friedman is in love with the sound of his own voice. He is just as over-hyped and irrelevant as Walt Mossberg. IGNORE HIM.
    • greenfyre, on 07/05/2008, -2/+3Thoughtful presentation of facts and information = 0
      Clear logic = 0
      Influence = 0

      Better luck next time
  • citizenk5, on 07/06/2008, -2/+4Very frightening. Really puts things into perspective. We need to do something, now.
  • fakekevinrose, on 07/06/2008, -1/+10DOES EVERYTHING HAVE TO BE A REVOLUTION
    • Berkana, on 07/06/2008, -0/+6Hush, you counter-revolutionary!
    • luag, on 07/06/2008, -2/+5Apparently not. Ask Nintendo. They opted for Wii instead of Revolution :-P
    • desertDenizen, on 07/06/2008, -0/+1Not unless you want enough people to adopt it that it becomes the new norm. If anything qualifies, this does.
    • MadEnvoy, on 07/06/2008, -0/+1Yes. Every time I take a ***** I yell, "Viva la revolution!".
  • s0m31john, on 07/06/2008, -7/+16Oh hey, a Huffington Post article on the front page.
    Time for a big circle jerk.
  • SaladCactusKing, on 07/06/2008, -1/+3Huh, I wonder why hippies threw a pie in his face in Boston for his position on the environment if he's so keen to be green. He's done more for the world than any of those assclowns.
    • bogdon6, on 07/06/2008, -0/+1Which is why is flies all over the world and lives in a huge house--he really loves the environment.
    • Abram730, on 07/10/2008, -0/+1Ummm don't conservatives save and ask why do I have to pay for people that didn't?
      So lets see liberals have been talking about global warming for generation but have they fixed it?

      Republicans are in bad shape... can they fix this?

      This is a big problem to every scientist but those payed by oil profits and they say it's real. It was talked about even before gas powered cars existed... Do you think Conservatives can conserve? How many Americans went to war for a loss? I say loss as it was a lie and one can't win if you need to be their for 50 years before the ground is empty of oil. That's a 50 year war with no victory!!!! So the world will say America the "Paper Tiger". That not security based!!! and all that killing for oil isn't bible based!! that's all 3 legs!!

      Perhapses instead of saying you liberals fly around in jets talking about conserving you should consider that there are Republicans that actually call themselves Conservatives, yet when was the last time they conserved anything?

      clear enough for you??? You know just an obvious point that there may be a problem with Conservatives that argue against conserving.... Call that common sense and yes if republicans vote democrat all the crooks will follow too, so don't just switch Democrat and assume you can keep voting that way!!!

      My mother is a real liberal that worked with the Black panthers... she leaves her windows open in the winter and wastes all her money. That's liberal.. not talking about conserving.... stop letting those neo-cons socialists tell you conserving is liberal. That's Orwellian.. It's easy to understand that conserving = Conservative... sorry to say this but duuuh

      How come hippies hit him in the face with a pie? Are you kidding me? Why ask why liberals aren't conserving?
  • Ryan166, on 07/06/2008, -3/+1We're gonna stahht a revolution, MAN!!!
  • FirEnRain432, on 07/06/2008, -4/+5I dont think tom friedman really has much credibility anymore so i wouldnt go see Wall-E. they hardly even talk in that movie and it is about robots that are trying to reverse effects of global warming. i think dutch said it best when he said "if it bleeds we can kill it" but he didn't know that plants dont have blood so maybe he was wrong, but i find that doubtful because the drudgereport posted an article concerning the fact that it is hard to find mario kart for wii in best buy, walmart, kmart, home depot, and gamestop. microsoft should really lay off creating new Operating Systems so often! windows 98 was fine!!!
    • psion01, on 07/06/2008, -0/+5Uh ...

      Could you walk me through that one more time?
      • Jeffool, on 07/06/2008, -0/+4He just Chewbacca'd the environment.
  • Badandy127, on 07/06/2008, -6/+5A Huffington Post article?

    NO WAY JOSE!!!! I can't believe it!
  • blackmesa, on 07/06/2008, -6/+0I'm all for being green, but what's with the constant inflow of huffingtonpost.com articles?? They're not that great, you know... I mean, the last thing from them on here was a bikini slideshow- great & incisive journalism there!
  • ArchivalQuality, on 07/06/2008, -0/+5Tom Friedman is always late to the party. Once some idea becomes popular or the political winds shift a certain way, he's suddenly ready to beat the drum for the cause. He's not wrong, but he just wants to sell more books.
  • bicyclethief, on 07/06/2008, -0/+2The Green Revolution will commence in about 6 months.
  • ripple123, on 07/06/2008, -1/+1I prefer bloody revolution.
  • AbsurdParadox, on 07/06/2008, -1/+8Green is the new Red.
  • mattbdavis, on 07/06/2008, -1/+6I like how you'd all rather bitch about the guy giving the speech. Forget who the guys is behind the mic, but heed is words. There is a deep truth to everything he's saying.
  • scoottie, on 07/06/2008, -6/+4huffington post? no thanks, buried
  • YodaJones, on 07/06/2008, -4/+1Gee, I guess if Tom says so. On second thought, ***** Tom and his book.
  • AsimovSolenson, on 07/06/2008, -2/+0I thought the weirding way was the ablity to destroy things with the power of one's voice, if thats the case then sign me up.

    (It is by will alone I set my mind in motion...)
  • estacado, on 07/06/2008, -0/+2Tom Friedman is overrated.
  • kolinkoolface2, on 07/06/2008, -3/+2eco-nazis.
    • desertDenizen, on 07/06/2008, -0/+1Everyone here familiar with the Diffusion S-curve? Every brown remark means there is still opportunity to profit from this epic steam engine of a societal trend. Keep griping, laggards, your information- and action-assymetry is making those of us with foresight wealthy.
  • atmenterprises, on 07/06/2008, -1/+2I find it interesting that Friedman says the middle class is growing around the globe. If you listen to most liberals in the U.S., they'll tell you that there is an ever-increasing gap between rich and poor and the middle class is going away.
    • desertDenizen, on 07/06/2008, -0/+2I was wondering about this exact point... perhaps I'll pick up a copy of "Flat Earth."
  • fumblr, on 07/06/2008, -0/+1Does anyone else think it is weird he is touting green revolution and yet at the same time he is drinking Fuji water, which in its transportation alone releases much unneeded C02, seems a a little hypocritical.
    • Szandor, on 07/06/2008, -0/+1Maybe someone at the festival gave it to him?
  • tommyjwall, on 07/06/2008, -0/+1Tom Green Calls for a Friedman Revolution?
  • mmilton, on 07/06/2008, -0/+1A carbon tax on gas is incredibly stupid even though we need smart grids and cars. We need forces pushing gas prices down not up. He doesn't realize how long his revolution will take and the agony it will cause.

    The average car has three owners and lasts 10 years (10% get replace per year). Assuming we had these smart cars available now, it would take 10 years for everyone to get one. And, he wants a carbon tax on gas to keep the price at a minimum of $4.50/gallon so that companies will continue to invest in alternative energy. Do you think that high gas prices that last for several years could send us from a recession to a depression?

    Let's have an evolution not a revolution. Let's avoid a carbon tax on gas, perhaps get rid of all gas taxes to save our economy first so that we can afford to pay for all the wonderful green programs.

    • Abram730, on 07/10/2008, -0/+1Before oil earth had a population under 500,000,000 and now we are almost at 7,000,000,000... when oil runs out it's WWlast or we fix things... sorry to be the bringer of bad news but all this food we grow takes massive inputs of energy.

      We really NEED to fix this or it's hell on earth when demand passes that flat line called supply... put humanity on the craps table for a few years of $3.00 gas?

      An electron still has room for liquid energy as we have the infrastructure for it. Electrons are cheep yet batteries are expensive. Clearly there is always profit. Thats the easy part.

      I find it funny that rich people always ask "how do I make money doing that" and that's always the easy answer lol
  • AnarchoGoth, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1No one is commenting on the "Green Revolution" of the Rockefeller Foundation and Monsanto?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution

    It was not a good thing.

    Oh, and Friedman is a Douche.
  • hellgas00, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1Why is he drinking FIJI water? isn't it shipped half way around the world. Sounds a bit hollow.
  • ostern5mn, on 07/13/2008, -0/+0Friedman is the man, but covered in HuffPost?
  • alfsborg, on 07/15/2008, -0/+1In The First Global Revolution the Club of Rome made this statement:

    "In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill.... All these dangers are caused by human intervention... The real enemy, then, is humanity itself."
    The First Global Revolution

    The original article on Wikipedia said: "The First Global Revolution is a 1991 book published by the Club of Rome regarding their proposed means of uniting the planet under a single government. Their conclusion is to use global warming as a threat, in order to convince the nations of the world to relinquish their sovereignty".

    We should be aware that the people behind the governments who want a one-world government or New World Order may be manipulating us in order to sanction an apparent solution to world problems. However, the One World Government they have in mind is not the same democratic, altruistic solution that we imagine. Google Club of Rome; Bilderberg; New World Order.

    WAKE UP SHEEPLE!
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