sandinista wrote:Ian wrote:Chris Hedges has apparently never read a single word of Thomas Friedman. There are few people advocating green technology and warning against the myriad of dangerous downsides to globalization as passionately as him.
"Friedman makes about as much sense as Charlie Sheen", eh? Good one, brah!
yah, Friedman is not an advocate and extremist proponent of globalization.
Oh please! Hell yes he's one of the strongest advocates of the benefits of globalization. More to the point, he
articulates the phenomenon of globalization, including its pitfalls, better than anyone I can think of.
And I never said otherwise, Sherlock.
Your OP gripes about environmental concerns related to globalization. For starters, you might want to try reading this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot,_Flat,_and_Crowded
A little synopsis:
In the book, Friedman addresses America’s surprising loss of focus and national purpose since 9/11 and the global environmental crisis. He advocates that global warming, rapidly growing populations, and the expansion of the global middle class through produced the convergence of hot, flat, and crowded. The solution to the environmental threat and the best way for America to renew its purpose is linked: take the lead in a worldwide effort to replace wasteful, inefficient energy practices with a strategy for clean energy, energy efficiency, and conservation. This means that the big economic opportunities have shifted from IT (Information Technology) in recent decades to ET (renewable Environmental Technologies).[2] Friedman frequently uses 2050 as a marker for when it will be too late for our world to reverse the harmful effects of climate change.
Friedman writes that the needed green revolution of the title would be more ambitious than any project so far undertaken: It will be the biggest innovation project in American history; and it will change everything from transportation to the utilities industry. This project is described in terms of nation-building.
The book alleges we've gone from the "Cold War Era" to the "Energy-Climate Era", marked by five major problems: growing demand for scarcer supplies, massive transfer of wealth to petrodictators, disruptive climate change, poor have-nots falling behind, and an accelerating loss of biodiversity. A green strategy is not simply about generating electric power, it is a new way of generating national power.[2]
Much of the primary points of the book were built out of his New York Times Magazine essay "The Power of Green"[3] and the "Foreign Policy" article "The First Law of Petropolitics"[4]
In other words, either Hedges doesn't know anything about what Friedman advocates, or else he was just dropping his name to get some recognition for himself. Either way, Hedges is a horse's ass.
North Korea socialist 
holy fuck zilla, take your meds.
