Charlie Rose - Thomas L. Friedman

[hyosho]

I think the next 6 comments will be crucial for this video

[00Billy]

lobbyists.

[ononoma]

PS Check out a Tesla sedan and stop watching Fox.

[ononoma]

I disagree on the dollar a gallon tax on gasoline, it's too high. Yeah, we should make it more expensive to use finite resource based energy technology, but if someone's willing to invest in renewable energy why not let them operate at a reduced tax rate (or even tax free) the first 5 years or so.

Criticizing renewable energy is like the guy in 1900 who hated Henry Ford and insisted on riding his horse. The horse was history. Now the combustion engine is history.

[ononoma]

Friedman is right, which ever country get's in front of this will have a distinct advantage (as oil production has peaked) in the near future. It's time for big businesses to do what they did in the country back in the 50's & 60's, invest in the future.

[ononoma]

Had GM stayed the course and invested (as most smart businesses do) they might have been the #1 car company in the world, instead of the subsidized piece of crap we all paid for. They even sold the battery technology to Chevron. Now they can't even make the Volt work.

[ononoma]

Also, since renewable energy has to be produced on site the potential to put Americans to work is great, therefore stimulating our economy and saving money from future foreign wars. Take the climate out of it, unless you work for Exxon why the hell would you want to depend on a dirty, finite resource to power our country? Remember the EV-1? And that was 90's technology! Unfortunately big oil and Bush Jr killed it.

[ononoma]

How can some of you dismiss this guy so thoughtlessly?

Even if you don't believe in Climate Change, is dependency on insane regimes for oil a sustainable policy? Would we have been wrapped up in Iraq if it weren't for oil? Each country producing it's own self sustaining energy makes us and them safer.

[smokinbill]

someone should kill this guy

[SmerkNomGool]

Friedman is a complete moron. He is a parasite of society. Liquidate him!

[mosti1987]

boooo...

[bobzilla211]

his green message rings hollow with his obsession with free markets

[TheProgressistViewer]

you can be a strong supporter of free markets, as I am, and still believe that there are exceptions, like the survival of manking

[ReduceGHGs]

Love this guy and his book!

[garyowen4ever]

whats with the shlubby mustache, this guy is a sausage butcher.

[mobileaarmy]

but his product is less tasty

[BarfObama]

Congress can't get anything done = Nancy Pelosi

[SXM0]

china uses lateral thinking. USA has Israel doing the thinking! which, given the current global consensus, is somewhat closed!!!! DUH!!!!

[TacticusPrime]

Yeah if government can't work, even with corruption, then why is China so powerful?

[suyashh77]

that's simple- because china is china; america is america; and india is india... hehe

[Chrisnoscrub047]

"Yea if government can't work [in the interest of the people]...then why is China so powerful [militarily]?" is this what you meant when you asked that question?

[TacticusPrime]

No I meant that if government mandates only hinder the expansion of the economy, that any government interference on any level automatically brings disaster as so many of my die hard Republican friends would have it, then how do you explain China's break neck growth?

[Chrisnoscrub047]

Before we continue this what are the measures you are using that point to break neck growth?

[pheil58]

Wow did he nail it ...our government is broken..

[Chrisnoscrub047]

Our govt. is certainly broken. But his suggestion is to give more power to the govt. curious, no?

[bluetwinky]

=More money to govt. curious=

Yes and no.

Mr. Friedman is a fellow who is a proponent of the theory of human caused global warming. If you follow him in thinking that action needs to be taken then it is consistent with the scale of the problem. To halt the emisions means drastic cuts. (80%+)

Nuclear power plants in the US (104 plants, 20% of electricity) cost at least 3 billion dollars to build.

So a total nuclear replacement = 400 plants x 3 billion $ = 1.2 trillion dolars.

[bluetwinky]

Would doing so be economicly ratioinal?

Well every year America spends something like 250 billion dollars buying foreign oil. How rational is that? How much of our wealth do we want to piss away?

[yangyin09u]

I like what Mr. Friedman has to say; not everything I agree with, but he's a great source of the big overview, the medium term

picture of 5-15 yrs. He's no Alvin Toffler but he comes close. (Future Shock)

Funny part is Charlie only has to ask one question:"So what's your new book about?" and Friedman could talk for an hour (or two) non stop with the enthusiasm of a college kid, thrilled with his own ideas to save us and the world. That's not a cynical comment: it's refreshing in man our age.

[angelbe88]

there is a green movement. And it is going on right now by the people. Maybe we should foucs on what we can do on our own. Our government is run by crooks who are into the occult. Seriously they are. Time for us to do it ourselves.

[drummer357A]

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[drummer357A]

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[yangyin09u]

What's so wrong with being a Marxist? I've always loved the Groucho. Besides, isn't Barack really more of a John Lennonist? ...or a Bob Marleyist?

[ronnaneil]

A new paradigm for economic competition:

The country that has the lowest cost of energy will be able to supply goods and services to the world for a lower cost or a higher profit margin. This would also mean a higher standard of living and a more robust economy for a country that has the lowest cost of clean energy.

Clean energy, will probably mean large nuclear power plants. Wind, solar, geothermal, tide and wave power will probably not be enough to meet the demands of our economy.

[BeondaPale]

I agree with your first statement, but completely disagree with your second.

Wind, solar, geothermal, tide and wave power are ubiquitous, virtually infinite and, in the final analysis, far cheaper than nuclear

[mustanghockey10]

Yes, but can those be produced at a fast-enough rate to meet daily energy demands? And what measures have to be taken to allow that to be done? Nuclear energy already has precedent...in France, I believe nearly all electricity is produced with nuclear power...and they are able to re-use the same material, reducing greatly the amount of waste...I don't know the details truly, but nuclear looks like a promising source.

[BeondaPale]

please familiarize yourself with "nanosolar paint"

-- paint that can be applied to any surface transforming roads or building exteriors into vast energy generators.

One nuclear plant will take ten years to build and we STILL don't have a permanent repository for all the nuclear waste we've already produced - neither does France

[Tressco]

climatesceptics

"BERLIN, July 8 (IPS) - Confirmation that radioactive brine has been leaking for two decades from a German underground deposit for nuclear waste is yet another blow to the idea that nuclear power can safely increase electricity generation and simultaneously reduce emissions.

No one has yet found a durable solution for storing nuclear waste, that remains highly radioactive for centuries.

France continues to deposit 1000s of tons of highly radioactive waste at La Hague."

[DrShrinker]

Great interview.

[32doors]

That entire screed was terrifying. He wants us to be a "Democratic China"?? It seems like the viro-nuts are finally aligning themselves with their true political sympathies -- fascism.

[frankodelic]

Thanks Thomas, you rock!

[SCW01902]

Republicans want to destroy the democrates so that America becomes a one-body republican government. Which would do away with checks and balances and would squarely place people at war with it's own goverment. Democrates can't do anything because they lack the back-bone to fight what is a political civil war that they need to win in order to survive this century. And while all this is going on, the left and right can't even agree on anything that would benefit the common good of the people.

[creten69]

oh,so we wont develope algea and be an algean republic,oh because rich people wont make money and people can drive withouht paying a dime by growing their own?oh so we are never going to legalize weed?Oh were just gonna stay an evil terrorist country until our countries debt is completely bought out?Obama isnt gonna change everything?Palin?and oooooold guy?

We should really consider being the marijuana country of the world,everyone would be laughing and life would be good.

[j4ck2234]

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