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June 28, 2024 | History

Hot, flat, and crowded

why we need a green revolution-- and how it can renew America

Release 2.0, updated and expanded.
  • 3.8 (4 ratings) ·
  • 11 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
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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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Douglas & McIntyre
Language
English
Pages
516

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Cover of: Hot, flat, and crowded
Hot, flat, and crowded: why we need a green revolution-- and how it can renew America
2009, Douglas & McIntyre
in English - Release 2.0, updated and expanded.
Cover of: Gurīn kakumei
Gurīn kakumei: ondanka furattoka jinkō kamitsuka suru sekai
2009, Nihon Keizai Shinbun Shuppansha
in Japanese - Ichihan
Cover of: Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - and How It Can Renew America, Release 2.0
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Hot, flat, and crowded: why we need a green revolution--and how it can renew America
2009, Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Paperback in English - 1st Picador ed.
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[Hot, flat, and crowded]
2009, Akādīmiyā Intarnāshyunāl
in Arabic
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Cover of: Hot, flat, and crowded
Cover of: Hot, flat, and crowded
Hot, flat, and crowded: why we need a green revolution-- and how it can renew America
2008, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Hardcover in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Hot, flat, and crowded
Hot, flat, and crowded: why we need a green revolution--and how it can renew America
2008, Large Print Press, Gale, Cengage Learning
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Table of Contents

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
II. WHERE WE ARE.
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
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?

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Includes index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
320.5/8
Library of Congress
GE197 F75 2009

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viii, 516 p.
Number of pages
516

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OL32106051M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
1553653173
ISBN 13
9781553653172
OCLC/WorldCat
445232463

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