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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution -- and How It Can Renew America
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Thomas L. Friedman’s no. 1 bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy—both of which could poison our world if we do not act quickly and collectively. His argument speaks to all of us who are concerned about the state of America in the global future. Friedman proposes that an ambitious national strategy— which he calls “Geo-Greenism”—is not only what we need to save the planet from overheating; it is what we need to make America healthier, richer, more innovative, more productive, and more secure. As in The World Is Flat, he explains a new era—the Energy-Climate era—through an illuminating account of recent events. He shows how 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the flattening of the world by the Internet (which brought 3 billion new consumers onto the world stage) have combined to bring climate and energy issues to Main Street. But they have not gone very far down Main Street; the much-touted “green revolution” has hardly begun. With all that in mind, Friedman sets out the clean-technology breakthroughs we, and the world, will need; he shows that the ET (Energy Technology) revolution will be both transformative and disruptive; and he explains why America must lead this revolution—with the first Green President and a Green New Deal, spurred by the Greenest Generation. Hot, Flat, and Crowded is classic Thomas L. Friedman—fearless, incisive, forward-looking, and rich in surprising common sense about the world we live in today.
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when there is crisis ther is chance. it told me what is our problem now and what is our solution. i am thinking what is my status and how can i grip this opportunity.
I've been reading books on climate change for years. Friedman's thesis goes on to say that economics can save the world that we are currently destroying. There is nothing easy about going green to save the planet. Thomas Friedman's book looks at climate change from an economic point of view.His thesis is that climate change is caused be economics. Whole new industries will arise and new jobs, which are so desperately needed now, will be created. It's not bad enough that the American way of life is the worst in terms of pollution. Almost all of them deal with just the science behind climate change and how science can stop or reverse climate change. His thinking is that the same ingenuity and resourcefulness that were responsible for the rise of America, making it the aspirational lifestyle of the third world, can be channeled into new, green industries that will mitigate the worst effects of climate change.He rightly points out that it will take more than the lists of "easy ways to go green" that are so popular these days.
Even worse is that the citizens of the developing world aspire to an American lifestyle. The effect of that many people all living an American lifestyle would be devastating for our planet.Fortunately, Mr. It will require a radical rethinking of how we live, work and play.His final argument is that this same need to develop technologies to save our planet will benefit us economically. No matter how you look at it, ecologically or economically, we cannot afford not to go green.
I cannot review Hot, Flat and Crowded because I never received it although I ordered it from Amazon on 5/21/09.
Bush was such a disaster - his lack of vision and kowtowing to oil companies left us further behind, more in debt, and more endangered from extremism. Journalist Thomas Friedman provides another winner with his superb analysis of global warming, energy dependence, and the economic consequences of an increasingly ravaged planet. Friedman also lays out a sensible plan for government investment, capital formation, and mostly free market approaches to making us a "green" nation with renewable energy and far less dependence on coal and foreign oil. This book should make readers understand (if they don't already) why President G.W. Still, this is an insightful, forward-thinking book, and fairly easy to read. As Friedman demonstrates, either we take the lead, or we risk getting beaten out by other nations.
dependence on foreign oil. Unlike many politicians, Friedman sees why we in the USA need to take action to make our nation more energy independent. The author also helps readers consider how yesterday's answers became today's challenges; new medicines and greater food yields spurred overpopulation, while many technological innovations meant increased U.S. Not that moving towards a greener society will be particularly easy; the author shows why the scientific, engineering, and capital challenges are considerable. But he also shows why the risks of doing nothing are much worse. I gave the book just four stars because Friedman should have trimmed about 50 pages from the manuscript.
Too bad many of our lawmakers won't have the smarts (or guts) to read it.
No, it's not a book about Chicago in the summer. This latest work of Thomas Friedman, the Pulitzer winner from the New York Times, discusses global warming, the worldwide rise of the middle class, and the ever increasing population growth. He captures the urgency of addressing these issues and suggests ways to do so. Interesting and worthwhile read.
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