Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0 Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America
by Friedman, Thomas L.Edition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-11-24
Publisher(s): Picador
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Summary
In This Brilliant, Essential Book, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas L. Friedman speaks to America's urgent need for national renewal and explains how a green revolution can bring about both a sustainable environment and a sustainable America.
Author Biography
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize three times for his work with The New York Times, where he serves as the foreign affairs columnist. He is the author of From Beirut to Jerusalem (1989), The Lexus and the Olive Tree (1999), Longitudes and Attitudes (2002), and The World is Flat (2005). He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
Table of Contents
| Preface to the Release 2.0 Edition | p. ix |
| 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 | p. 3 |
| Dumb As We Wanna Be | p. 28 |
| The Re-Generation | p. 49 |
| Where We Are | |
| Today's Date: 1 E.C.E. Today's Weather: Hot, Flat, and Crowded | p. 63 |
| Our Carbon Copies (or, Too Many Americans) | p. 85 |
| Fill 'Er Up with Dictators | p. 110 |
| Global Weirding | p. 146 |
| The Age of Noah | p. 180 |
| Energy Poverty | p. 194 |
| Green Is the New Red, White, and Blue | p. 210 |
| How We Move Forward | |
| 205 Easy Ways to Save the Earth | p. 249 |
| The Energy Internet: When It Meets ET | p. 263 |
| The Stone Age Didn't End Because We Ran Out of Stones | p. 288 |
| If It Isn't Boring, It Isn't Green | p. 320 |
| A Million Noahs, a Million Arks | p. 353 |
| Outgreening al-Qaeda (or, Buy One, Get Four Free) | p. 373 |
| China | |
| Can Red China Become Green China? | p. 399 |
| America | |
| China for a Day (but Not for Two) | p. 429 |
| A Democratic China, or a Banana Republic? | p. 456 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 477 |
| Index | p. 485 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
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