Hot, flat, and crowded : why we need a green revolution, and how it can renew America / Thomas L. Friedman.
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TextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.Edition: 1st edDescription: 438 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN: - 9780374166854
- 0374166854
- Green movement -- United States
- Green technology -- United States
- Climatic changes
- Power resources -- Environmental aspects
- Environmental policy -- United States
- Energy policy -- United States
- United States -- Environmental conditions
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020
- Energy policy -- United States
- Climate -- Government policy -- United States
- Energy resources -- United States
- Renewable energy resources -- United States
- Environmental policy -- United States
- GE 197 .F75 2008
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Includes index.
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.
pt. 1. Where we are -- 1. Where birds don't fly -- 2. Today's date : 1 E.C.E. Today's weather : hot, flat, and crowded -- pt. 2. How we got here -- 3. Our carbon copies (or, Too many Americans) -- 4. Fill 'er up with dictators -- 5. Global weirding -- 6. The age of Noah -- 7. Energy poverty -- 8. Green is the new red, white, and blue -- pt. 3. How we move forward -- 9. 205 easy ways to save the Earth -- 10. The energy Internet : when IT meets ET -- 11. The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones -- 12. If it isn't boring, it isn't green -- 13. A million Noahs, a million arks -- 14. Outgreening al-Qaeda (or, Buy one, get four free) -- pt. 4. China -- 15. Can Red China become Green China? -- pt. 5. America -- 16. China for a day (but not for two) -- ch. 17. A Democratic China, or a banana republic? -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
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