My Generation Thomas Friedman Analysis

Thomas Friedman has mistaken some of my generation’s ignorance as my entire generation. Friedman says he’s shocked that we are less radical and politically engaged than we need to be but more optimistic and idealistic than we should be. He thinks that all we do is party and not give a damn about the world we live in. Friedman also says that we don’t care about worldly issues and are too online and too quiet for our own good. I disagree with Friedman’s statement about my generation because we do care about political and worldly issues, maybe just not in the way his generation did. Friedman’s first claim is that we are too online for our own good. The truth is that being too online isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I get more than 50% of my news

Remaining quiet isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I feel like we remain quiet because the world might just be too corrupt for a normal person to fix things. When politicians raise their hand and make a decision that might benefit the world and not themselves, that will be the day I will stop being quiet. It’s easier to make a difference in your community rather than the whole world. We may not be radical like Friedman’s generation, but our passion to try to change the system is still awake. We don’t need to have protests and boycotts to make change happen. Nowadays we students pursue majors such as law, business and engineering instead of focusing on political science or religion. When we pursue those majors as our careers we can make a difference. We can take our learned knowledge and present our ideas to companies and try to get our message across to them, to create a difference. We stake our professional reputations on others desire to prove that triple bottom business model enhances a company’s brand, market value and financial future. My friend is doing is masters in environmental engineering. He is very passionate about making sure our planet stays healthy and safe from all these man-made technologies companies use. He cares about how the amount of greenhouse gases has began to increase over the past couple of years. The largest source of greenhouse gas emissions from human activities in the United States is from burning fossil fuels for electricity, heat, and transportation. We are depleting the Earth of its natural resources and no one except for the few eager environmentalists is ready to take charge in it because the government says global warming and climate change doesn’t seem exist in their eyes. There is a old saying that Friedman probably didn’t think of, “Beware of the quiet ones”, The quiet ones can be the most deadly and the most forward. They can make or break you. Friedman