Hot, flat, and crowded
Subtitle: why we need a green revolution-- and how it can renew America
By: Thomas L. Friedman
Edition: Release 2.0, updated and expanded.
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9781553653172
Subjects: Green movement; Green technology; Sustainable development; Climatic changes; Power resources; Environmental aspects; Environmental policy; Energy policy; Écologisme; Technologie de protection de l'environnement; Développement durable; Climat; Changements; Aspect de l'environnement; Ressources énergétiques; Environnement; Politique gouvernementale; Politique énergétique
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: I. WHEN THE MARKET AND MOTHER NATURE HIT THE WALL. Why Citibank, Iceland's Banks, and the Ice Banks of Antarctica all melted down at the same time; title: Dumb as we wanna be; title: The Re-Generation; title: II. WHERE WE ARE.; title: Today's date: 1 E.C.E. Today's weather: hot, flat, and crowded; title: 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?