Hot, Flat, and Crowded : : why we Need a Green Revolution-- and how it can Renew America
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Includes index.
I. WHERE WE ARE. Where birds don't fly -- Today's date: 1 E.C.E. Today's weather: hot, flat, and crowded -- II. 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 -- III. 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) -- IV. CHINA. Can red China become green China? -- V. AMERICA. China for a day (but not for two) -- A democratic China, or a banana republic?
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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: 438 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780374166854
0374166854
SUBJECTS
Green movement.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
United States -- Environmental conditions.