Hot, flat, and crowded : why we need a green revolution--and how it can renew America / Thomas L. Friedman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Friedman, Thomas L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Green movement--United States.

Green movement.

Environmental conditions.

Green technology.

United States.

Green technology--United States.

Climatic changes.

Power resources--Environmental aspects.

Power resources.

Environmental policy--United States.

Environmental policy.

Energy policy--United States.

Energy policy.

United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.

Social conditions.

United States--Environmental conditions.

Physical Description:

viii, 516 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

Release 2.0, updated and expanded ; first Picador edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Picador, 2009.

Summary:

Examines America's loss of focus and national purpose since 9/11, and the global environmental crisis, and shows how the solutions to these two problems are linked.

Contents:

Preface to the release 2.0 edition

PART 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

Dumb as we wanna be

The re-generation

PART II: WHERE WE GO: Today's date 1 E.C.E. Today's weather: hot, flat, and crowded

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

PART 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)

PART IV: CHINA: Can Red China become Green China?

PART V: AMERICA: China for a day (but not for two)

A democratic China, or a banana republic?

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780312428921

0312428928

OCLC:

294887385