Friedman talks of 'going green' in GR

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - We're not having a green revolution, we're having a green party, leading journalist and author Thomas Friedman said Wednesday to a DeVos Place crowd.

Green energy won't be achieved until there's an economic incentive for it, Friedman added.

"We're massively underestimating the risks of emitting carbons," he said. "We're privatizing the gains from it whether through cheap electricity or $2 a gallon gasoline. And we're socializing the losses by charging all those carbon molecules onto our children's Visa cards to come back in the form of future climate change."

Friedman spoke at the 60th anniversary dinner of the World Affairs Council of Western Michigan.