If you’re one of the three people who reads this here premier “web log,” you may have once checked out the New York Times op-ed page. You might even recognize the names of the columnists, who every day spout the most conventionally wise of the conventional wisdom. This is a feature that is dedicated to these folks, highlighting one line that is either funny, ridiculous, strange, or actually intelligent or well-written.
Today\’s is from Thomas \”The Tank Engine\” Friedman, who in his column today, \”Putin and the Laws of Gravity,\” writes:
Putin has basically bet his country’s economic present and future on hydrocarbons at a time when the chief economist of the International Energy Agency has declared that “about two-thirds of all proven reserves of oil, gas and coal will have to be left undeveloped if the world is to achieve the goal of limiting global warming at two degrees Celsius” since the Industrial Revolution.
Right, everybody\’s going to stop using fossil fuels because the IEA said they shouldn\’t anymore. Been sayin\’ it for years, yet here we are.
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