An edition of Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - and How It Can Renew America, Release 2.0
(2008)
Hot, flat, and crowded
why we need a green revolution-- and how it can renew America
Release 2.0, updated and expanded.
by Thomas L. Friedman
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Examines America's surprising 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-- we can restore the world and revive America at the same time.
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Climatic changes, Green technology, Environmental aspects, Ecology, Environmental conditions, LEADERSHIP, Environmental policy, Social conditions, Green movement, Power resources, Energy policy, Large type books, Écologisme, Technologie de protection de l'environnement, Climat, Changements, Ressources énergétiques, Aspect de l'environnement, Environnement, Politique gouvernementale, Politique énergétique, Climate change, Environmental policy, united states, Energy policy, united states, United states, environmental conditions, United states, social conditions
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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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