now he's a radical!
"Take over your administration building, occupy your university president's office or storm in on the next meeting of your college's board of trustees until they agree to make your schools carbon-neutral." - Thomas Friedman, 4/21/06.
Oh, Tom. It's a stupid column, by the way. It sounds like he's saying that global warming is really kids' fault, not the fault of corporations and governments.
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And here's the on-point response from the Climate Campaign:
Published: April 26, 2006
To the Editor:
Thomas L. Friedman ("The Greenest Generation," column, April 21) poses a question to my generation: "This is your challenge. Who will rise to it?"
We will. I am certain because students at more than 200 schools across the United States and Canada have already taken on the Campus Climate Challenge, confronting the challenge of their generation by reducing their global warming impacts and by calling on their leaders to do the same.
I am certain because this is just one marker of a mounting, well- coordinated youth movement. And I am certain because I have committed my life to this challenge, as so many of my peers have.
But to truly take on global climate change, we need the help of every generation. Together, we need to elect clean-energy champions to office. We need to ask if our investment dollars are going to climate-responsible companies.
We need to demand that automakers in Detroit start making cleaner cars. We need to commit to buying clean energy.
We are rising to the challenge. Will you join us? Meg Boyle
Director, Climate Campaign
Washington, April 22, 2006
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