Thomas Friedman May Be Correct On The Merits

...but this'll never work:

We’re trying to deal with a whole array of integrated problems — climate change, energy, biodiversity loss, poverty alleviation and the need to grow enough food to feed the planet — separately. The poverty fighters resent the climate-change folks; climate folks hold summits without reference to biodiversity; the food advocates resist the biodiversity protectors.

They all need to go on safari together.

These issues are already complicated and complication leads to confusion. Furthermore, expanding the focus of a movement saps its focus and renders it ineffective.

In an ideal world, perhaps these should be tackled together, but most human minds can conceive of how each of these things affect each other. Also, at some point, you have to draw a line because you could say X affects Y which effects Z forever. But yes, the zealots in these movements, do work at cross purposes to one another unnecessarily.