12/4/09

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America



Hot, Flat, and Crowded:
Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America


by Thomas L. Friedman
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
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Washington Post Best Book of the Year
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Businessweek Best Business Book of the Year
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Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year

In this brilliant, essential book, Pulitzer Prize-winningย author Thomas L. Friedman speaks to America's urgent need for national renewal and explains how a green revolution can bring about both a sustainable environment and a sustainable America.

Friedman explains how global warming, rapidly growing populations, and the expansion of the worldโ€�s middle class through globalization have produced a dangerously unstable planet--one that is "hot, flat, and crowded."ย In this Release 2.0 edition, he also shows how the very habits that led us to ravage the natural world led to the meltdown of the financial markets and the Great Recession.ย The ch...


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