Tiene razón Thomas Friedman, columnista del New York Times, cuando dice - en el Aspen Ideas Festival- que el mundo lo que necesita es "ser realista" acerca de lo que supone luchar contra el cambio climático:
I am not a skeptic about global warming. It’s happening. I
am a total skeptic that we are really doing anything about it. I think
we are in the middle of a huge green bubble … You’ll pardon me when I
hear people say, “We’re in the midst of a green revolution.” Oh, green
revolution.
Did you ever study a revolution in history? You ever seen a revolution in history where nobody got hurt? That’s the green revolution. In the green revolution, nobody gets hurt—we’re all winners … Exxon’s green. They give $100 million to Stanford … Dick Cheney’s green. He’s for alternative fuels, yeah. He’s for liquefied coal. Dick Cheney’s green. We are all green now. Welcome to the green revolution, where nobody gets hurt.
… This isn’t the green revolution, friends. This is a party … Twenty years ago—15 years ago—we all talked here about the [information technology] revolution. Do you think that was pain-free? … Oh, everyone wasn’t a winner in the IT revolution. There are a lot of old-legacy industries that didn’t get it. And they got steamrolled. And ladies and gentlemen, today the old-legacy industries, they control this story; they control that policy mechanism in Washington. They are tough, and they will fight dirty. They are not going anywhere.
And that’s why we are having a green party, not a green revolution. Do not kid yourself for one second.
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