Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - and How It Can Renew America

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Author: Thomas L. Friedman

ISBN-10: 0374166854

ISBN-13: 9780374166854

Category: Economics - General & Miscellaneous

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A rousing manifesto for our climate-challenged future The New York Times - David G. Victor The litany of dangers has been told many times before, but Mr. Friedman's voice is compelling and will be widely heard…Heads will be nodding across airport lounges, as readers absorb Mr. Friedman's common sense about how America and the world are dangerously addicted to cheap fossil fuels while we recklessly use the atmosphere as a dumping ground for carbon dioxide.

Pt. I Where We Are1 Where Birds Don't Fly 32 Today's Date: 1 E.C.E. Today's Weather: Hot, Flat, and Crowded 26Pt. II How We Got Here3 Our Carbon Copies (or, Too Many Americans) 534 Fill'Er Up with Dictators 775 Global Weirding 1116 The Age of Noah 1407 Energy Poverty 1548 Green Is the New Red, White, and Blue 170Pt. III How We Move Forward9 205 Easy Ways to Save the Earth 20310 The Energy Internet: When IT Meets ET 21711 The Stone Age Didn't End Because We Ran Out of Stones 24112 If It Isn't Boring, It Isn't Green 26713 A Million Noahs, a Million Arks 29714 Outgreening al-Qaeda (or, Buy One, Get Four Free) 317Pt. IV China15 Can Red China Become Green China? 343Pt. V America16 China for a Day (but Not for Two) 37117 A Democratic China, or a Banana Republic? 395Acknowledgments 415Index 423