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described as bummed out over America's lack of progress taking on climate change....A friend of his labeled him and his peers as the grasshopper generation because of all the conspicuous consumption. We ate through it all like hungry locusts, Friedman was also a featured speaker along with Rocky Mountain Institute founder Amory Lovins and the cast of characters above billed as an armchair chat.
Amory Lovins: Green China poses a greater threat than Red China ever did"