num_pages: 438
description: In this brilliant essential book Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas L. Friedman speaks to America's urgent need for national renewal and explains how a green revolution can bring about both a sustainable environment and a sustainable America. Friedman explains how global warming rapidly growing populations and the expansion of the worlds middle class through globalization have produced a dangerously unstable planet--one that is hot flat and crowded. In this Release 2.0 edition he also shows how the very habits that led us to ravage the natural world led to the meltdown of the financial markets and the Great Recession. The challenge of a sustainable way of life presents the United States with an opportunity not only to rebuild its economy but to lead the world in radically innovating toward cleaner energy. And it could inspire Americans to something we haven't seen in a long time--nation-building in America--by summoning the intelligence creativity and concern for the common good that are our greatest national resources. Hot Flat and Crowded is classic Thomas L. Friedman: fearless incisive forward-looking and rich in surprising common sense about the challenge--and the promise--of the future.
language: English
title: Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux