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Thomas P.M. Barnett


American
1962
Businessman
Every U.S. president enters office promising stronger ties with our southern neighbors, only to thereupon largely ignore them.
Thomas P.M. Barnett
Tags: Our Them Only
Frankly, the only thing China has in easy abundance is people and dirty coal. Neither is the asset they're made out to be.
Thomas P.M. Barnett
Tags: People Out Only
Is there anything about cyberspace that particularly screams Air Force? Not really. If cyber warfare is going to be as all-encompassing as it's made out to be by its vigorous proponents, then it will disseminate throughout the services even more than the drone phenomenon has.
Thomas P.M. Barnett
Tags: About More Out
To ask a country with 750 million people living on less than a dollar a day to optimize their development for the environment as opposed to getting food in the mouths of these people and giving them a decent lifestyle, that's just a little bit too much to ask.
Thomas P.M. Barnett
Tags: Food People Just
China's headlong rush to industrialize was pursued with the most Marxist of prejudices - bending nature to man's will. That's a desperately hard trick to pull off when one fifth of humanity, having previously subsisted on 7 percent of the world's freshwater supply, decides that it wants to instantaneously increase its caloric intake.
Thomas P.M. Barnett
Tags: Nature Will World
We need to remind ourselves that our ultimate goal is not to reduce greenhouse gases or global warming per se but to improve the quality of life and the environment. We all want to leave the planet in decent shape for our kids. Radically reducing greenhouse gas emissions is not necessarily the best way to achieve that.
Thomas P.M. Barnett
Tags: Best Life Want