Hot, Flat, and Crowded

Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America

Author: Thomas L. Friedman
ISBN: 9780374166854

Thomas L. Friedman's phenomenal number-one bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see the world in a new way. In his brilliant, essential new book, Friedman takes a fresh and provocative look at two of the biggest challenges we face today: America's surprising loss of focus and national purpose since 9/11; and the global environmental crisis, which is affecting everything from food to fuel to forests. In this groundbreaking account of where we stand now, he shows us how the solutions to these two big problems are linked--how we can restore the world and revive America at the same time.Friedman explains how global warming, rapidly growing populations, and the astonishing expansion of the world's middle class through globalization have produced a planet that is "hot, flat, and crowded." Already the earth is being affected in ways that threaten to make it dangerously unstable. In just a few years, it will be too late to fix things--unless the United States steps up

Publisher: Macmillan
Publish Date: 2008-09-08

Subjects: Business & Economics / Industries / Energy, Business & Economics / Development / Sustainable Development, Business & Economics / Environmental Economics, Political Science / Political Economy, Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy, Political Science / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Technology & Engineering / Power Resources / Alternative & Renewable

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