Terminology

From today’s New York Times column by Thomas Friedman:

“Geo-greens seek to combine into a single political movement environmentalists who want to reduce fossil fuels that cause climate change, evangelicals who want to protect God’s green earth and all his creations, and geo-strategists who want to reduce our dependence on crude oil because it fuels some of the worst regimes in the world.

The Bush team has been M.I.A. on energy since 9/11. Indeed, the utter indifference of the Bush team to developing a geo-green strategy – which would reduce our trade deficit, make America the world leader in combating climate change and stimulate U.S. companies to take the lead in producing the green technologies that the world will desperately need as China and India industrialize is so irresponsible that it takes your breath away. This is especially true when you realize that the solutions to our problems are already here.“

I will repeat my position: Any plan for the future of our species which relies on digging X out of the ground and burning it, forever, is a bad plan. I don’t care what X is.