Support AlterNet
Do you value the information you're getting from AlterNet? Please show your support with a tax-deductible donation.
Feedback
Tell us how we're doing.
Thomas Friedman Gets Pied!
Thomas Friedman, the author and NY Times columnist, was all set to deliver an Earth Day speech at Brown University entitled "Green is the new Red, White, and Blue." Friedman's been calling for government-led environmentalism to bring about energy salvation and climate change.
Not everyone agrees with Friedman's ideas, including the Greenwash Guerrillas, who stormed the stage and let their green pies fly. As the Greenwash Guerillas fled, they threw leaflets into the crowd that stated:
Thomas Friedman deserves a pie in the face...
* Because of his sickeningly cheery applaud for free market capitalism's conquest of the planet.
* For telling the world that the free market and techno fixes can save us from climate change. From carbon trading to biofuels, these distractions are dangerous in and of themselves, while encouraging inaction with respect to the true problems at hand.
* For helping turn environmentalism into a fake plastic consumer product for the privileged
* For his long-standing support for the US Occupation of Iraq and the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Such committed support to the US War Machine and its proxy states overseas cannot be masked behind any twisted mask of "green" - the US Military is the largest single emitter of greenhouse gases in the world.
* For his pure arrogance.
On behalf of the earth and all true environmentalists -- we, the Greenwash Guerrillas, declare Thomas Friedman's "Green" as fake and toxic to human and planetary health as the cool-whip covering his face.
Tagged as: environment, thomas friedman
ZP Heller is the editorial director of Brave New Films. He has written for The American Prospect, AlterNet, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Huffington Post, covering everything from politics to pop culture.
| Also in Video | |||
| GOP Senator Lindsey Graham Breaks Ranks, Admits "The Green Economy Is Coming" Finally, one member of the GOP has a slice of reality pie. Post by Staff. November 5, 2009. |
Iowa Wingnut Steve King Lauds Lobbyists as American Heros for Bussing in Health Reform Protesters Astroturfing earns praise from the GOP rep. Post by Lee Fang. November 4, 2009. |
GOP Loon Goes Off the Rails: Health Reform Greater Threat than Terrorism The government's trying to put you to death, don't you know. Post by Faiz Shakir. November 2, 2009. |
|
EMAIL
PRINT
12 COMMENTS
PERMALINK