Thomas Friedman: And the color of the year is …

I know that you should never generalize about global warming from your own weather. But as a longtime resident of Washington, D.C., it’s hard not to, considering that it has been so balmy this winter season I’m half expecting the cherry blossoms to come out for Christmas. In fact, my wife was rummaging through her closet the other day and emerged to tell me she needed a whole new wardrobe – “a global warming wardrobe,” clothes that are summer weight but winter colors.

For this, and other reasons, had I been editing Time magazine I would not have opted for the “you” in YouTube as Person of the Year – although that was very clever. No, I’d have run an all-green Time cover under the headline, “Color of the Year.” Because I think that the most important thing to happen this past year was that living and thinking “green” – that is, mobilizing for the environmental/energy challenge we now face – hit Main Street.
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