{"id":708,"date":"2005-02-06T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-06T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/02\/06\/hawking-geo-green\/"},"modified":"2005-02-06T15:24:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-06T15:24:00","slug":"hawking-geo-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/hawking-geo-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawking Geo-Green"},"content":{"rendered":"
According to Gil Friend, Thomas Friedman was on Tim Russert’s CNBC program pushing the Geo-Green concept<\/a> that I mentioned last week<\/a>. I still think this concept sounds like green neo-conservatism\/colonialism. I do think we need to work on independence from Mid-Eastern oil, and do think such independence would produce political turmoil in places like Saudi Arabia, but to hawk energy independence as a path to a more democratic Middle East seems like a recipe for, at the very least, disappointment… Like Gil, I’m having trouble finding a link to a page for Russert’s show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to Gil Friend, Thomas Friedman was on Tim Russert’s CNBC program pushing the Geo-Green concept that I mentioned last week. I still think this concept sounds like green neo-conservatism\/colonialism. [ … ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n