Comments on: Attention Tom Friedman: We The People Includes You

By: Thomas Friedman has a Message for You « 2013 Speaks

Thomas Friedman has a Message for You « 2013 Speaks — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:17:43 +0000

[...] off, The people over at It’s Getting Hot in Here have some interesting things to say to Thomas Friedman on what the youth movement is really doing to combat climate [...]

By: Lucky

Lucky — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:38:02 +0000

Tom Friedman lives in a 14,000-square-foot house. No need to listen to him!!!!

By: dl

dl — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:37:16 +0000

meh to thomas friedman. i’m organizing to help save the future of humans and ecosystems, and to protect the bioregions that i love and give me life, not to get the approval of greenwashers.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:42:28 +0000

12,000 people at Power Shift 2009 is a big conference. It’s not a movement. Not yet. It’s nice that there are tens of thousands of young people who are active, hundreds of thousands who care, but until that translates into a movement that can actually challenge the power structures that are running our future into the ground, I’m afraid Mr. Friedman is right in his criticism of young people. Don’t take it personally.

By: kenshin

kenshin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:20:25 +0000

yeah, tom missed out on this:

and of course the 3000 who lobbyied months ago with powershift.

but this part of the article was dead on, about why this bill was so compromised:

“They had to make the compromises they did,” said Dan Becker, director of the Safe Climate Campaign, “because almost every House Republican voted against the bill and did nothing to try to improve it. So to get it passed, they needed every coal-state Democrat, and that meant they had to water it down to bring them on board.”

By: John Doyle

John Doyle — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:11:28 +0000

When I read his article I was also frustrated that he didnt give any love to the youth movement, so I definitely feel your sentiment. However, we do need to grow – we aren’t big enough, there are way too many youth coasting through when they could be helping us stand taller and become more powerful. And that’s not to knock the work that we’re doing,it’s just something I think we all agree on. In the same vein, when you take a shot at his generation you’re not giving credit to all of the tireless advocates that have devoted much of their life (for many, more time than we have) to this cause. I don’t think we want to overlook their good work because of the fact that the more pervasive apathy of their generation overshadows it.

At the end of the day though, we don’t need Tom Friedman’s recognition/acknowledgment/or commentary. We know what the deal is, there are thousands of us putting our hearts into this work and we’re going to keep growing and get done what needs to get done.