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Rachel Maddow welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman to discuss the UN climate change conference which recently took place in Copenhagen, Denmark. ‘Too little trust’ is what Friedman saw at COP15, especially between the United States and China – with neither wanting to give an economic advantage to the other by cutting their emissions. He favors an American ‘Green revolution’ so the United States can be an economic leader in what is poised to eventually be a post fossil fuels world. Friedman also compares the inefficiency of the currently ultra-polarized political situation around environmental action in the United States with China’s one party autocracy.
Rachel Maddow: Thomas Friedman on Copenhagen
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