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I agree with how the author Mr. Friedman discusses climate change in his article. He puts it forward that for the United States to be fully competitive in a globalized economy it is in our economic interests to have a green economy. The United States is a country that hates to lose, as Americans we want to be the best at everything from test scores to medals at the Olympics. If we were to frame the climate debate as one where the United States would need to compete against other nations in our interests, I feel that it would lead to greater action being done to confront climate change. Helping the planet and reducing our impact to stop further climate change are ideal reasons to do something about the issue, but in our country if we need to make it a competition to get something done it would be well worth it.

The argument that green manufacturing will lessen the impacts of climate change is one which is an interesting notion to have because green production still has an impact just reduced. Innovation that leads to a lesser dependence on the world's natural resources is one that should be encouraged and financed but these innovations can only go so far. These innovations I feel that if we try to on top of a greater transition to a green economy we should start looking for solutions that have no impact on the planet but still give us economic growth. I feel that would be a better solution to the climate change issue then simply reducing our impact on the planet.