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Hot, flat, and crowded : why we need a green revolution, and how it can renew America
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Hot, flat, and crowded : why we need a green revolution, and how it can renew America

Author: Thomas L Friedman
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ©2008.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Examines America's 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.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Thomas L Friedman
ISBN: 9780374166854 0374166854
OCLC Number: 259283763
Notes: Includes index.
Description: viii, 402 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents: I. WHERE WE ARE. Where birds don't fly --
Today's date: 1 E.C.E. Today's weather: hot, flat, and crowded --
II. HOW WE GOT HERE. 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?
Responsibility: Thomas L. Friedman.

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Examines America's 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.

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