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Thomas Friedman Calls for "Green Revolution"

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At the Aspen Ideas Festival,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, and global crowding is driving five key trends that will define the 21st century. Now there's a book worth reading, and an idea worth spreading.

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16 responses // Thomas Friedman Calls for "Green Revolution"

  • THE GREEN NAZI'S ARE THE POLITICAL ARM OF GLOBAL CORPORATIONS.

    The Green Nazi's are following in the steps of Hitler. First let me define Nazism, is a partnership of business and government. The Green Nazi's are the political link between Global Corporations, and government. The same way the Nazi's were linked to German Business.

    The Green Nazi's are a front for Global Corporations. Of course, they protest against Golbal Corporation, while their moto is "Think Globally, and act locally".

    Check out Green Nazi's causes; Plastic Bags, but not plastic packaging. Plastic Bags are a very thin, and small part of the plastic use in retail stores. Plastic packaging is very thick.

    I'm talking about the plastic packaging that is so tough, that it is impossable to open. This packaging is not for the consumer's convinience, but instead to prevent shoplifting.

    Why do the Global Corporation want to get rid of thin plastic bags? Retailers want control of the shoppers. When we are required to us our own bags. The retail will not be able to see what is being taken out of the store. This will require inspectors to inspect our bags.

    The right to inspect our personal bags is what the Global Corporation retailers want. The Green Nazi's with their selective protest of plastic bags is the means to achieve Global Corporation's goals.

    Off shore drilling, the Global Corporation want to limit the supply of oil by stopping drilling in the United States. China is drill for oil between Key West and Cuba, but the United States can't.

    Every country in the world is drilling for except the United States, because Global Corporations want to keep the supply of oil down and the price of oil up.

    The Biofuels a renewable fuel source, or a new profit center for Global Corporations. Biofuels are using sacred farm land to fuel SUV's.

    Farm land is sacred, because it feeds the people of the world. At this present time, poor people in third world countries are starving, because an SUV need Biofuel.

    Global car manufacture are another partner of the Green Nazi's. Every year you hear the Global car manufacture complaining about air polutions emissions controls. All the while, the Global car manufacture is making profits installing emissions controls.

    What is very interesting is the silence of the Green Nazi's about the CAFE standards. These are standard set in the 70's to raise the average gas milage. At the end of the 70's, the top horse power car were around 200 horse power. The Corvette may of had 250 horse power.

    Today, you can by Corvettes with 650 horse power, Cadillac with 400 horse power. Where were the Green Nazi's? They are not protesting this waste of fuel, and food when you include Biofuels.

    Why did the Green Nazi's protest gas guzzlers?Because they are the dupes or political arm of Global Corporations.

    While the poor are starving, Global Corporations are reaping profits, because of increased food prices. All these profits just fall into the Global Corporations lap.

    Maybe it's not fair to call them Green Nazi's, because I'm sure some of them believe in what they are doing. These true believers are what Lenin call useful idiots.
    mo1y
  • Please help respond to mo 1y in this regard
    jjmaster
  • Mo1y,
    How about your Oil Nazi friends. I dont hear you talking about there Gestapo style propaganda machine or there SS troops excuse me Blackwater Private contractors. Those fascist have made every Muslim living in America the new era Jew.
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    amirct3
  • mo1y, I have seen confused individuals but looks like you are attempting to top their place. First you're using a "wordy" association that mystify the whole green environmental issue. Your example are full of delusional ticks. We should be helping people to change this polluted reality and not confusing people or making them somewhat paranoic just because they are changing their habits to a green cause. "Green Nazis"? You got to be kidding me! Can you pull out of your fertile imagination something that is more productive and educative and less confused or destructive?
    stopnoise
  • Holy Hell, mo1y. Who are you? For real? Who' paying you? You are just one big talking point. No introspection. No comprehension. Just yelling.

    It's unbelievable how you turn environmentalists into fascists when the most obvious forms of fascism in this country are committed by the conservative elites and oil barons who you swoon over. You meld Green Nazis and Global Corporations into the same thing, what is that?? With no examination, no example.

    I'm mean, I can respond in paragraphs to every one of your points. But I'm just going to point out the most factually inaccurate part of your post. China off the coast of the US, drilling?? Are you serious?? Don't you know George Will, the man who created that rumor, admitted it was false. As did Cheney when he repeated it. Do you listen to right wing radio and nothing else?? This is just not true. A one hundred percent lie. Ask senator Mel Martinez. He set the record straight on the senate floor.

    Oh, and the Nazi thing is uncalled for, not to mention the fact, yes fact, that it's an intellectually void attack. Any time any person compares anything to Nazis, the argument goes out the window. Distortion is the main goal there.

    And Thomas Friedman knows what's up, by the way.
    JudahEvan
  • Greens are the opposite of Nazis.

    Mo1fly uses the Neo-Con tactic of mirroring.

    They call the opposition what they, themselves,
    are, facist Nazis.

    In reality, the Green movement is about individual and community empowerment and decentralization.

    Decentralizing power and individuals and communities taking back control of their own energy and food production is the exact opposite of the corporate control that centralizes the means of production and makes everyone slaves to the consumer economy.
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    TouchArt
  • Yes, thank you for responding! That is activism!
    jjmaster
  • No problem.

    We have to support people working for sustainable solutions and continue to stand up and speak truth to power.

    Luckily, the truth has power itself. Like a small match can light up a whole room, truth spoken with courage can illuminate the mind and overcome ignorance and fear that make slaves of free people.
    TouchArt
  • There is a reason the Neo-Cons Bush and Cheney and cronies use scare tactics to increase fear.

    While it would seem the best tactic is to rage against the system, in most cases, the exact opposite tactic is more effective. Refuse to react with fear, and instead, practice unconditional love, generosity, creativity and joy.

    You may be surprised with the result.

    Great leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Ghandi, Amma, Oren Lyons and Russell Means know that peaceful resistance is the only path to peace with justice.

    Like Onondaga Faithkeeper Chief Oren Lyons says, we need to remember that with freedom comes responsibility. We humans today are responsible, not only to ourselves and our families, but also to the 7th generation because what we do today affects their lives and futures. To survive, we need a fundamental values change to bring us back into right relation with ourselves, each other, the earth and all our relations.
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    TouchArt
  • Hey folks, This "mo1y" it is a major coward! Just contact me thru my email with one of his fearful message! I find strange when people lack the courage to respond transparently and instead decide to contact others through emails on bad terms. Waaaay off line... Grow up would you?
    stopnoise
  • Me too stopnoise. Here is what he wrote me:

    "No I'm not being paid, but I good enough to be paid. I tried to read you diatribe, but got bored. Let me give you a secret. You should use paragraphs, and good sentences. Now your paragraph should express an idea in the first sentence. Then your middle sentences should support you first sentence. You last sentence should summerize your paragraph, and segway to your next idea or paragraph. Practice what I wrote, then write me back. It ashame you did not learn to write in school. Say to say, the schools taught proporganda, which you regurgitated for good grades. The school did this in order to maintain their liberial hold on this country. You should try independent thinking. If the Greens fought for Biofuel, who did it benifit. Global Corps. Who did Biofuel hurn? The 3rd world who can't pay for the food, because the food is going into SUV's. Think. Don't regurgitaite proporgandia. Yes, the Chinise are drill of the coast of Florida in Cubian waters."

    I gave him the link proving his China off the coast of Cuba assertion wrong. Just inaccurate. But I need to learn up on my writing techniques. That's his main point I think. This is no lie. I copied and pasted. All those grammatical mistakes and all that shitty spelling is exactly how I received it in my message box. I need to stop my "liberial" "proporgandia", I guess.
    JudahEvan
  • Can anybody say "Troll"?
    jubal
  • He wrote me an insulting email too.

    Seems like someone paid to harass and spread misinformation.
    TouchArt

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