Hot, flat, and crowded : why we need a green revolution-- and how it can renew America

Summary: 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.

Item details

ISBN: 9780374166854
ISBN: 0374166854
Physical Description: print
438 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.

Contents / Notes

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

pt. 1. Where we are -- Where birds don't fly -- Today's date : 1 E.C.E. Today's weather : hot, flat, and crowded -- pt. 2. 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 -- pt. 3. 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) -- pt. 4. China -- Can red China become green China? -- pt. 5. America -- China for a day (but not for two) -- A democratic China, or a banana republic?

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