Hot, flat, and crowded : why we need a green revolution and how it can renew America /
Friedman, Thomas L.
Hot, flat, and crowded : why we need a green revolution and how it can renew America / Thomas L. Friedman. - 1st ed. - New York, NY : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. - 438 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
I. WHERE WE ARE. Where birds don't fly -- Today's date: 1 E.C.E. Today's weather: hot, flat, and crowded -- II. HOW WE GOT HERE. Our carbon copies (or, too many Americans) -- Fill 'er up with dictators -- Global weirding -- The age of Noah -- Energy poverty -- Green is the new red, white, and blue -- III. HOW WE MOVE FORWARD. 205 easy ways to save the earth -- The energy internet: when IT meets ET -- The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones -- If it isn't boring, it isn't green -- A million Noahs, a million arks -- Outgreening al-Qaeda (or, buy one, get four free) -- IV. CHINA. Can red China become green China? -- V. AMERICA. China for a day (but not for two) -- A democratic China, or a banana republic?
Friedman's bestseller "The World Is Flat" has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now the author brings a fresh outlook to the crisis of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy.
9780374166854 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0374166854 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2008930589
Green movement--United States.
United States--Social conditions--1980-
United States--Environmental conditions.
GE197 / .F76 2008
Hot, flat, and crowded : why we need a green revolution and how it can renew America / Thomas L. Friedman. - 1st ed. - New York, NY : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. - 438 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
I. WHERE WE ARE. Where birds don't fly -- Today's date: 1 E.C.E. Today's weather: hot, flat, and crowded -- II. HOW WE GOT HERE. Our carbon copies (or, too many Americans) -- Fill 'er up with dictators -- Global weirding -- The age of Noah -- Energy poverty -- Green is the new red, white, and blue -- III. HOW WE MOVE FORWARD. 205 easy ways to save the earth -- The energy internet: when IT meets ET -- The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones -- If it isn't boring, it isn't green -- A million Noahs, a million arks -- Outgreening al-Qaeda (or, buy one, get four free) -- IV. CHINA. Can red China become green China? -- V. AMERICA. China for a day (but not for two) -- A democratic China, or a banana republic?
Friedman's bestseller "The World Is Flat" has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now the author brings a fresh outlook to the crisis of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy.
9780374166854 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0374166854 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2008930589
Green movement--United States.
United States--Social conditions--1980-
United States--Environmental conditions.
GE197 / .F76 2008