Friedman Pre-reading/Analysis

JIGSAW

  • Friedman
  • Communism, 1
  • Berlin Wall, 4
  • American Revolution, 4
  • Industrial Revolution, 6
  • Schwarzenegger, 6
  • the China price, 9
  • Enron, 12
  • Green New Deal, 16

PACES for Friedman

P: Awaken readers to the urgency of the need to go green and provide direction in how to do so

A: America needs to truly go green in order to solve three issues: jobs, temperature and terrorism and become the model country it used to be

C: Seven sections

I.

three major issues in America: jobs, temperature, terrorism

we need to go green to fix them

Green may be “Main Street,” but we haven’t even begun to actually go green

II.

“Soaring oil prices are poisoning the international system by strengthening antidemocratic regimes” (4).

We need to lower gas prices and start with “greening” the army.

III.

the negative effects of climate change are already occurring and we are noticing them

but we have to redevelop everything we do to combat it; it will not be an easy task

IV.

China is a big player in carbon emissions

developed countries need to move first ..and they all need to move

it costs money, so we need to make it easier on them “the China price”

V.

to get to the “china price” we need to become more energy efficient

we can do this by getting huge corporations to go green

Wal-Mart is a great example of what “Father Greed” can accomplish

VI.

developed countries who can afford to do so need to make their people pay the price for using gasoline and dirty coal (contradictory with low gas price claim?)

there’s already successes: EU, Texas

government needs to set high standards and make policy changes

VII.

we gotta make green so “sexy” and efficient that China can’t turn it down

going green will make America stronger economy wise and leadership wise

we need a Green New Deal

Stewardship…future generations

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E: stats/described charts, personal experience, expert sources, history, examples

S: analogy, motto motif, ethos, authoritative quotations, pathos, anecdotes, rhetorical questions, irony, diction

Pre-reading questions

What is climate change?

What is “going green”?

Do you care about the way other countries view us?

What do you think about the American dream?

Do you care about future generations?

Discussion questions