Thomas Friedman on the US Economy and Global Warming

Thomas Friedman's column in the New York Times on March 8, 2009, depicts 2008 as the beginning of "The Great Disruption" -- a momentus era which reforms the global economy and particularly that of the United States. It's worth reading - the article is called "The Great Inflection". It seems that historians may view 2008 as the antithesis to Aldous Huxley's "year of our Ford 632".