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Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Tom Friedman believes the framing of climate change is too positive; he renames it "global weirding" in response.

Friedman says that, at this point, so much carbon has been introduced into the environment, natural disasters can no longer be traced to "an act of God or an act of man."

Thomas L. Friedman

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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10-17-2008

farber2
hey Friedman, is globalization based mostly on exploitation?

10-18-2008

farber2
invent a way to have global markets with out exploitation.

10-21-2008

revokin
tom friedman,the champion of globalization,thought it was so great to tour India's new job market while Americans were going on welfare,becoming homeless and getting swindled by all that is BUSH.
Now he discovered energy policy-good for him.He should flip burgers,stand and wait for a bus,get on line(no pun) for some food handouts,move into a shelter or with relatives or stand on a corner with all the illegal aliens waiting for a day job.
Tom Friedman sucks and makes us all sick to our stomachs-even Madelyn Albright put him down in her book on the next president.

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