Tom Friedman Calls for "Code Green" on the Environment

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/09/23/Tom_Friedman_Hot_Flat_and_Crowded

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and columnist Tom Friedman criticizes the U.S. government for inaction on the fight against global warming, and calls for a "Code Green" approach to clean energy development.

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In this talk, New York Time columnist and author Tom Friedman exposes the irrationality of U.S. policies that promote consumption of vast quantities of oil.

Friedman stresses that the United States must lead efforts to develop energy alternatives that would 1) free us from our dependence on petro-dictatorships and 2) help preserve the earth, oceans, and biodiversity.

The program concludes with a Q&A between Friedman and Editor of The New Republic, Frank Foer - Sixth & I Synagogue

Thomas L. Friedman, a columnist for The New York Times, is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board. Friedman was bureau chief for The Times in Beirut and Jerusalem before writing, From Beirut to Jerusalem, which won the National Book Award for non-fiction. His book, The Lexus and the Olive Tree won the 2000 Overseas Press Club award for best nonfiction book on foreign policy. His latest work, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century, won the inaugural Goldman Sachs/Financial Times Business Book of the Year award. He has a B.A. in Mediterranean studies from Brandeis University and a Master of Philosophy degree in Modern Middle East studies from Oxford.

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[garyowen4ever]

tom friedman would like to be the new green hitler,,,BUT THAT JOB GOES TO ALGORE....tom will have to settle for being his josef goebbels.

[garyowen4ever]

seig heil!

[BESTSTRINGSLINGER]

...this guy is a friggin' idiot...he can pay $5 a gallon for gas if he wants...

[diemagus7]

He is brilliant. The Lexus and the Olive Tree changed the way I see the world.

[MrFlylice]

DUmbasses don't know the concept of climate cycles lol

[smakdoubt]

fuk yeah.

[Entropy56]

we dont have a government that is maximizing and nurturing that innovative prowess to give us what we need at scale.

The operative word is give us.

That says it all.

[truthadvocate]

It's simple. Trash 90% of the government programs. Put all that bureaucratic red-tape wasted wealth back in the hands of the people. and watch this country soar.