Off to the Races
By
Tom Friedman
New York Times
December 20, 2009
NYTimes Op-Ed columnist Tom Friedman on how the US can win the global race to create clean energy jobs & businesses
SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES
December 20, 2009
Op-Ed Columnist
Off to the Races
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Copenhagen
I’ve long believed there are two basic strategies for dealing with climate change — the “Earth Day” strategy and the “Earth Race” strategy. This Copenhagen climate summit was based on the Earth Day strategy. It was not very impressive. This conference produced a series of limited, conditional, messy compromises, which it is not at all clear will get us any closer to mitigating climate change at the speed and scale we need.
