Hot, flat, and crowded why we need a green revolution-- and how it can renew America
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.
| Main Author: | Friedman, Thomas L. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2008.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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?