Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution -- And How It Can Renew America

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Author: Thomas L. Friedman
Narrator: Oliver Wyman
Genres: Politics, Current
Publisher: MacMillan Audio Books
Date: August 2008
Length: 11 hours
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A rousing manifesto for our climate-challenged future
Friedman's bestseller "The World Is Flat" has helped millions understand globalization in a new way. Now the author brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy.

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Needed direction

by Anonymous
  • Book Rating: 5/5

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution

by Michael G. Scott
  • Book Rating: 5/5

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Needed direction

Written by Anonymous from Encinitas, CA on October 28th, 2008

  • Book Rating: 5/5

Not a quick read to take to the beach on a summer afternoon, but the topic and ideas presented are too important to ignore. People sometimes quickly dismiss books about environmental issues, assuming it will lead to the condemning of science, technology, and societal advances, instead proposing a regression toward a simpler 1800's style lifestyle. What makes the book different to me is that Friedman has researched and described solutions which exist, have been proven, make both environmental as well as economic sense. In 2008, the U.S. has faced significant downturns in many areas. Perhaps the culmination of all these problems arising at the same time is that the public will recognize the seriousness of our economic downturn, read this book, and clamor for solutions. Hopefully, elected officials will also read this book, think Nationally vs. Regionally, and lead vs. react to crises in energy and environmental areas, and enact solutions similar to those offered in Friedman's book

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution

Written by Michael G. Scott from Santa Cruz, CA on October 6th, 2008

  • Book Rating: 5/5

I am admittedly a huge fan of Friedman's. I read his column weekly in the NY Times, & I've read every one of his books. His last book is on my Top 5 list of books that I recommend to people. This book didn't disappoint either. It sets out to prove how tightly integrated the three topics are today - Hot (global warming / climate change), Flat (globalization), and Crowded (the rising global population). Friedman lays out exhaustive details on how this is a global problem, & the US's role in it. He also describes in exhaustive detail the steps he thinks the US, as well as the rest of the world needs to take to slow down / halt the catastrophic damage that we are doing to our planet, making ourselves next on the endangered species list. He goes into detail how the US needs to play a MAJOR role in TheGreen Revolution, and how ET (Energy Technology) is to the 21st Century as IT was to the latter half of the 20th. This book is a MUST READ!

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Needed direction

by Anonymous
  • Book Rating: 5/5

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution

by Michael G. Scott
  • Book Rating: 5/5

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Author Details

Author Details

Friedman, Thomas L.

Thomas L. Friedman, a world-renowned author and journalist, joined The New York Times in 1981 as a financial reporter specializing in OPEC- and oil-related news and later served as the chief diplomatic, chief White House, and international economics correspondents. A three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he has traveled hundreds of thousands of miles reporting the Middle East conflict, the end of the cold war, U.S. domestic politics and foreign policy, international economics, and the worldwide impact of the terrorist threat. His foreign affairs column, which appears twice a week in the Times, is syndicated to one hundred other newspapers worldwide.

Friedman is the author of From Beirut to Jerusalem (FSG, 1989), which won both the National Book Award and the Overseas Press Club Award in 1989 and was on the New York Times bestseller list for nearly twelve months. From Beirut to Jerusalem has been published in more than twenty-seven languages, including Chinese and Japanese, and is now used as a basic textbook on the Middle East in many high schools and universities. Friedman also wrote The Lexus and the Olive Tree (FSG, 1999), one of the best selling business books in 1999, and the winner of the 2000 Overseas Press Club Award for best nonfiction book on foreign policy. It is now available in twenty languages. His last book, Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11, issued by FSG in 2002, consists of columns Friedman published about September 11 as well as a diary of his private experiences and reflections during his reporting on the post-September world as he traveled from Afghanistan to Israel to Europe to Indonesia to Saudi Arabia. In 2005, The World Is Flat was given the first Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, and Friedman was named one of America's Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report.

Friedman graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis University with a degree in Mediterranean studies and received a master's degree in modern Middle East studies from Oxford. He has served as a visiting professor at Harvard University and has been awarded honorary degrees from several U.S. universities. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his wife, Ann, and their two daughters.