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

by Friedman, Thomas L.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: new York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2008Edition: 1st ed.Description: 438 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780374166854; 0374166854.Subject(s): Green movement -- United States | United States -- Social conditions -- 1980- | United States -- Environmental conditions
Contents:
Part I: WHERE WE ARE. - 1. Where Birds Don't Fly - 2. Today's Date: 1 E.C.E. Today's Weather: Hot, Flat, and Crowded -- Part II: HOW WE GOT HERE. - 3. Our Carbon copies (or, Too Many Americans) - 4. Fill 'Er Up with Dictators - 5. Global Weirding - 6. The Age of Noah - 7. Energy Poverty - 8. Green Is the New Red, White, and Blue -- Part III: HOW WE MOVE FORWARD. - 9. 205 Easy Ways to Save the Earth - 10. The Energy Internet: When It Meets ET - 11. The Stone Age Didn't End Because We Ran Out of Stones - 12. If It Isn't Boring, It Isn't Green - 13. A Million Noahs, a Million Arks - 14. Outgreening al-Qaeda (or, Buy One, Get Four Free) -- Part IV: CHINA. - 15. Can Red China Become Green China? -- Part V: AMERICA. - 16. China for a Day (but Not for Two) - 17. A Democratic China, or a Banana Republic? -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
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.
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Includes index.

Part I: WHERE WE ARE. - 1. Where Birds Don't Fly - 2. Today's Date: 1 E.C.E. Today's Weather: Hot, Flat, and Crowded -- Part II: HOW WE GOT HERE. - 3. Our Carbon copies (or, Too Many Americans) - 4. Fill 'Er Up with Dictators - 5. Global Weirding - 6. The Age of Noah - 7. Energy Poverty - 8. Green Is the New Red, White, and Blue -- Part III: HOW WE MOVE FORWARD. - 9. 205 Easy Ways to Save the Earth - 10. The Energy Internet: When It Meets ET - 11. The Stone Age Didn't End Because We Ran Out of Stones - 12. If It Isn't Boring, It Isn't Green - 13. A Million Noahs, a Million Arks - 14. Outgreening al-Qaeda (or, Buy One, Get Four Free) -- Part IV: CHINA. - 15. Can Red China Become Green China? -- Part V: AMERICA. - 16. China for a Day (but Not for Two) - 17. A Democratic China, or a Banana Republic? -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

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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