Environmental Leadership

The Power of Green
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
What does America need to regain its global stature?
Environmental leadership.

We will need to find a way to reknit America at home, reconnect America abroad and restore America to its natural place in the global order — as the beacon of progress, hope and inspiration. I have an idea how. It’s called “green.”

After World War II, Eisenhower responded to the threat of Communism with massive spending on an interstate highway system to tie America together, in large part so that we could better move weapons. That highway system, though, helped to enshrine America’s car culture, to get America addicted to cheap fossil fuels, particularly oil. Many in the world followed our model.

Friedman calls for a similar vision, placing the US as a new type of role model.

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