Colleagues,
Not necessarily a lot new in what I read and saw, but when one of the leading US columnists focuses on it in a book likely to hit the best seller list, I think -- I hope -- it bodes well for increased public discussion and attention and political action.
Gordon
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Tom Friedman Calls For Green Revolution
At the Aspen Ideas Festival Thursday, New York Times columnist and The World Is Flat author Thomas Friedman gave a preview of his new book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution — and How It Can Renew America , which comes out in September. 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.
Friedman argues that those five trends — energy and resource supply and demand, petro-dictatorship, biodiversity loss, climate change, and energy poverty — have all been driven past a tipping point such that they have created a new era of history: the energy climate era.
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