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If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.

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Thomas Friedman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 20
Columnist
Journalist
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Television Producer
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Saint Louis Park
Minnesota
Thomas Loren Friedman
Thomas L. Friedman
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I think that competition will exist even if we discover more oil. We're never going to know how much we have, or how long will it last. You are always going to want to have diversity of supply. I think the Middle East will remain a region of competition, of global competition, fighting for a long time.
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What we do know is that the planet is going from 7 billion people today to 9 billion. More people want to live like us, drive American- size cars, live in an American-size home, and eat American-size Big Macs. What does that mean? It means that energy demand is going to be going up.
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The Middle East would always be an important trading partner in just a market sense, like America is a big market for us, Asia is a big market, Europe is a big market. You are going to have hundreds of millions of consumers there, from just a standard market point of view, from a very narrow American point of view.
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Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.
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Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home.
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In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them.
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There is a connection between energy, climate, food and political stability. That has played out in the Arab awakening and is not done playing out.
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I don't think the Arab Spring had much to do with energy. I think it was just the opposite, in fact. I think the Arab Spring happened because particularly young people knew they were living in a context where they could not realize their full potential, that they are being kept down by their own governments.
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Combating climate change requires government policy, and most conservatives hate the idea of more government regulation. Because they hate the prescription, they deny the diagnosis.
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A vision without resources is an hallucination.
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No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's
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When you study history and look at every civilization that has grown up and died off, they all leave one remnant: a major sports colosseum at the heart of their capital. Our fate can be different but only if we start doing things differently.
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Every golf course should have its carbon rating on the scorecard, alongside its Course Rating, Slope, par and yardage.
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Iraq today does have a chance to shape its own future. They may not do that, or this generation may not do that. But maybe the next one will, I don't know. They may try and fail, and stumble, get up and fall back.
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You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept.
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We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.
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The first rule of holes is when you're in one, stop digging. When you're in three, bring a lot of shovels.
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If e-mail had been around before the telephone was invented, people would have said, 'Hey, forget e-mail! With this new telephone invention I can actually talk to people!'.
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Syria is on the back end of basically a decade-long drought. Over the last decade, farmers and herders have been ravaged in Syria forcing them to give up and move to urban areas. This has put a huge strain on urban resources, and it's surely one of the reasons for the uprising there.
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The unemployment rate today for people with our-year college degrees is 4.1%, which is almost none. That's people switching jobs basically. That tells you that education is the only way up and the only way out. If that is the fact, then we've got to get more of it for more people.
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