[You may want to first read this post and the Friedman articles referenced there.]
Grist Magazine interviews New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman on his geo-green strategy. An excerpt:
Q. That raises a question about the plausibility of your geo-green proposal: Even if America and other industrial countries were to take aggressive measures to reduce our oil demand, won't the ballooning demand in India, China, Russia, and elsewhere keep oil prices high? Won't oil suppliers in the Middle East have plenty of takers even if our demand drops?
A. It would certainly have an effect, but as it is the U.S. has towering influence over the global oil economy. We consume 25 percent of the world's energy and we've got 5 percent of the global population, so what we do matters not only in terms of what we do, but because our strategy will drive innovation and global trends. If we converted our entire auto fleet to hybrid, that would have a huge impact first in the U.S. and then in the rest of the world. As efficient technologies penetrate markets here, they will become the technology of choice and penetrate the markets globally. If we set the example, pioneer alternatives, and improve the energy products we export, it will hugely influence the level of demand created by the countries coming online.
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Q. What's the timeline on all of this? Realistically how quickly could we implement these proposals and see the rewards?
A. I think we could do it in the blink of an eye. If the president got behind this, imagine what leaps and bounds he could make. Imagine if George Bush did a Nixon-to-China and he brought the coalition together, bringing neocons and geo-greens together. It would be historic. He's got the Congress. He's got the White House. He has all the power necessary to do this.
Q. But would he?
A. Well, probably not. But my point to him would be: What are you doing? What would your presidency be remembered for? The deficit? The tax giveaway? A failed attempt to privatize Social Security so we can have no stockbroker left behind? Geo-greenism is smart geopolitics, it's smart fiscal policy, it's smart climate policy. But most of all, it's smart politics! The Republican Party is much greener than George Bush or Dick Cheney. Even evangelicals are increasingly speaking out about the need for us to protect God's green Earth. If you're obsessed with the right to life, you have to be obsessed with sustaining the environment -- that is also God's creation. He didn't create human beings to live in parking lots.
A lot of Friedman's suggestions merit consideration. He outlines his strategy in greater detail in the interview and in the articles referenced in the post linked to above.
Sometimes I get the impression that Friedman sees geopolitical issues and environmental issues as inseparable and is trying to articulate a solution to a big set of interrelated problems. Other times I get the impression that he sees the "green" part of geo-green as instrumental to achieving the "geo" part.
I don't agree that the principal reason for "green" policy is to motivate political reform in the Middle East (which is not to say anything about the importance of political reform in the Middle East). I'm also made very nervous by Friedman's suggestions that Bush utilize his "bully pulpit" to affect this strategy - if that kind of leadership is out of place in a democratic society, it will be out of place whether used for good or bad ends.
However, as I've written about before, it is crucial to any kind of progress on these issues - and they are the issues - that the U.S. administration perceive it as being in its own self interest to participate in combating climate change.
12/08/2011
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More on wind farms: a "necessary evil"
From the Guardian:
Wind farms, while necessary, are a classic example of what environmentalists call an "end-of-the-pipe solution". Instead of tackling the problem - our massive demand for energy - at source, they provide less damaging means of accommodating it. Or part of it.
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...there is no sustainable way of meeting current projections for energy demand. The only strategy in any way compatible with environmentalism is one led by a vast reduction in total use. Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth...make this point repeatedly, but it falls on deaf ears. What is acceptable to the market, and therefore to the government, is an enhanced set of opportunities for capital, in the form of new kinds of energy generation. What is not acceptable is a reduced set of opportunities for capital, in the form of massively curtailed total energy production. It is not their fault, but however clearly the green groups articulate their priorities, what the government hears is "more wind farms", rather than "fewer flights".
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