Hot, flat, and crowded
Subtitle: why we need a green revolution-- and how it can renew America
By: Thomas L. Friedman.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780374166854
Subjects: Green movement -- United States; United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-; United States -- Environmental conditions
Description: 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 crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: I. WHERE WE ARE. Where birds don't fly; title: Today's date: 1 E.C.E. Today's weather: hot, flat, and crowded; title: II. HOW WE GOT HERE. Our carbon copies (or, too many Americans); title: Fill 'er up with dictators; title: Global weirding; title: The age of Noah; title: Energy poverty; title: Green is the new red, white, and blue; title: III. HOW WE MOVE FORWARD. 205 easy ways to save the earth; title: The energy internet: when IT meets ET; title: The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones; title: If it isn't boring, it isn't green; title: A million Noahs, a million arks; title: Outgreening al-Qaeda (or, buy one, get four free); title: IV. CHINA. Can red China become green China?; title: V. AMERICA. China for a day (but not for two); title: A democratic China, or a banana republic?