Hot, Flat and
Crowded | Thomas L.
Friedman Hot, Flat and Crowded:
Thomas L. Friedman’s phenomenal number-one bestseller
The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see the
world in a new way. In his brilliant, essential new book,
Friedman takes a fresh and provocative look at two of the biggest
challenges we face today:
America’s surprising loss of focus and national purpose since 9/11; and the global
environmental crisis, which is affecting everything from food to fuel to forests. In this groundbreaking account of where
we stand now, he shows us how the solutions to these two big problems are linked--how we can restore the world and
revive America at the same time.
Friedman explains how global warming, rapidly growing populations, and the astonishing expansion of the world’s middle
class through globalization have produced a planet that is “hot, flat, and crowded.” Already the earth is being affected in
ways that threaten to make it dangerously unstable. In just a few years, it will be too late to fix things--unless the United
States steps up now and takes the lead in a worldwide effort to replace our wasteful, inefficient energy practices with a
strategy for clean energy, energy efficiency, and conservation that Friedman calls Code Green.
This is a great challenge, Friedman explains, but also a great opportunity, and one that America cannot afford to miss.
Not only is American leadership the key to the healing of the earth; it is also our best strategy for the renewal of America.
In vivid, entertaining chapters, Friedman makes it clear that the green revolution we need is like no revolution the world
has seen. It will be the biggest innovation project in American history; it will be hard, not easy; and it will change
everything from what you put into your car to what you see on your electric bill. But the payoff for America will be more
than just cleaner air. It will inspire Americans to something we haven’t seen in a long time--nation-building in America--by
summoning the intelligence, creativity, boldness, and concern for the common good that are our nation’s greatest natural
resources.
Hot, Flat, and Crowded is classic Thomas L. Friedman: fearless, incisive, forward-looking, and rich in surprising common
sense about the challenge--and the promise--of the future.
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