Recently at Brown University, Thomas Friedman took the stage to give a speech on the environment for Earth Day. A few seconds into its beginning, two people from Greenwash Guerrillas stormed the stage and threw pies at him. The source of the group’s disgruntlement was written on a flyer:
“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 a guy who’s baffling famous for a nonsensical metaphor (The World is Flat), he actually recovered pretty quickly.
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