LWW
06-13-2011, 02:44 AM
... except for the elites!
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style='font-size: 11pt'>Good news, we’re doomed, says New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman in Wednesday’s "The Earth Is Full." (Has the globe-trotting Friedman never been to Texas?) But we can still save ourselves eventually, as long as we realize that "the consumer-driven growth model is broken and we have to move to a more happiness-driven growth model, based on people working less and owning less."</span> But does that "own less" solution include the privileged columnist as well? ...
Friedman wrote a book on climate change called "Hot, Flat and Crowded," and penned this piece of paranoia in an October 2009 column: <span style='font-size: 14pt'>"...we never know when the next emitted carbon molecule will tip over some ecosystem and trigger a nonlinear climate event -- like melting the Siberian tundra and releasing all of its methane, or drying up the Amazon or melting all the sea ice in the North Pole in summer."</span>
Friedman forwarded Gilding’s anti-capitalistic idea, dressed in green:
<span style='font-size: 11pt'>We will realize, he predicts, that the consumer-driven growth model is broken and we have to move to a more happiness-driven growth model, based on people working less and owning less. </span>
"How many people," Gilding asks, "lie on their death bed and say, ‘I wish I had worked harder or built more shareholder value,’ and how many say, ‘I wish I had gone to more ballgames, read more books to my kids, taken more walks?’ To do that, you need a growth model based on giving people more time to enjoy life, but with less stuff."
<span style='font-size: 14pt'>Friedman's call to "own less" would be more palatable if he wasn't throwing his self-righteous stones from his own palatial residence. The July 2006 Washingtonian magazine called it "a palatial 11,400-square-foot house, now valued at $9.3 million, on a 7.5-acre parcel</span> just blocks from I-495 and Bethesda Country Club."</div></div>
Yet another (http://newsbusters.org/blogs/clay-waters/2011/06/09/privileged-nyt-columnist-tom-friedman-calls-people-work-less-own-less-n) leftist icon shown to be nothing more than a statist hypocrite pimp.
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style='font-size: 11pt'>Good news, we’re doomed, says New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman in Wednesday’s "The Earth Is Full." (Has the globe-trotting Friedman never been to Texas?) But we can still save ourselves eventually, as long as we realize that "the consumer-driven growth model is broken and we have to move to a more happiness-driven growth model, based on people working less and owning less."</span> But does that "own less" solution include the privileged columnist as well? ...
Friedman wrote a book on climate change called "Hot, Flat and Crowded," and penned this piece of paranoia in an October 2009 column: <span style='font-size: 14pt'>"...we never know when the next emitted carbon molecule will tip over some ecosystem and trigger a nonlinear climate event -- like melting the Siberian tundra and releasing all of its methane, or drying up the Amazon or melting all the sea ice in the North Pole in summer."</span>
Friedman forwarded Gilding’s anti-capitalistic idea, dressed in green:
<span style='font-size: 11pt'>We will realize, he predicts, that the consumer-driven growth model is broken and we have to move to a more happiness-driven growth model, based on people working less and owning less. </span>
"How many people," Gilding asks, "lie on their death bed and say, ‘I wish I had worked harder or built more shareholder value,’ and how many say, ‘I wish I had gone to more ballgames, read more books to my kids, taken more walks?’ To do that, you need a growth model based on giving people more time to enjoy life, but with less stuff."
<span style='font-size: 14pt'>Friedman's call to "own less" would be more palatable if he wasn't throwing his self-righteous stones from his own palatial residence. The July 2006 Washingtonian magazine called it "a palatial 11,400-square-foot house, now valued at $9.3 million, on a 7.5-acre parcel</span> just blocks from I-495 and Bethesda Country Club."</div></div>
Yet another (http://newsbusters.org/blogs/clay-waters/2011/06/09/privileged-nyt-columnist-tom-friedman-calls-people-work-less-own-less-n) leftist icon shown to be nothing more than a statist hypocrite pimp.