Hot, Flat, and Totally Phucking Wrong: The Perilous Platitudes of a Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Propagandist - a podcast by Post Carbon Institute: Sustainability, Climate, Collapse, and Dark Humor
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Meet Tom Friedman, the mustachioed metaphor maven who thinks we can have our cake and listen to it too. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.
Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.
For an entertaining deep dive into the theme of season five (Phalse Prophets), read the definitive peer-reviewed taxonomic analysis from our very own Jason Bradford, PhD.
Sources/Links/Notes:
- Thomas Friedman, "Foreign Affairs Big Mac I," The New York Times, December 8, 1996.
- Matt Taibbi's critique of Hot, Flat, and Crowded -- "Flathead" Strauss Media, November 21, 2014.
- Jason Hickel et al., "Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990–2015," Global Environmental Change, March 2022.
- Thomas Friedman, "The Earth Is Full," The New York Times, June 7, 2011.
- Thomas Friedman, "Something's Happening Here," The New York Times, October 11, 2011.
- Thomas Friedman, "Want to Save the Earth? We Need a Lot More Elon Musks.," The New York Times, November 16, 2021.
- Thomas Friedman, "How We Broke the World," The New York Times, May 30, 2020.
- Belen Fernandez, The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work, November 1, 2011.
- Here's the archive of Global Citizen columns by Donella Meadows.
- Ian Parker, "The Bright Side: The relentless optimism of Thomas Friedman," The New Yorker, November 2, 2008.
- Thomas Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, 1999.
- Thomas Friedman The World Is Flat, YouTube video of Yale University Lecture, 2009.
- Garrett Graff, "Thomas Friedman is On Top of the World," Washingtonian Magazine, July 1, 2006.
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