How many Friedman Units do we have before the Arctic ice is gone? This is pretty scary.

But this author also hits on the same solution Tom Friedman does, that we can do something, and that it holds not just promise for the planet, but the economy, too:

The irony is that we live on a world seething with energy. From the red hot magma beneath our feet over which we majestically glide on rafts of stone, to the mountains of water and continents of air our sun and moon drag around the planet everyday. Even the matter which forms our material world is energy, frozen, condensed, and available for use -- with the right technology. The first nation that figures out how to tap into any of that in a big, commercially viable way, will inherit the new millennium. Those left behind will be heir to a future far less desirable.