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

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Thomas L. Friedman’s no. 1 bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy—both of which could poison our world if we do not act quickly and collectively. His argument speaks to all of us who are concerned about the state of America in the global future.

Friedman proposes that an ambitious national strategy— which he calls “Geo-Greenism”—is not only what we need to save the planet from overheating; it is what we need to make America healthier, richer, more innovative, more productive, and more secure.

As in The World Is Flat, he explains a new era—the Energy-Climate era—through an illuminating account of recent events. He shows how 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the flattening of the world by the Internet (which brought 3 billion new consumers onto the world stage) have combined to bring climate and energy issues to Main Street. But they have not gone very far down Main Street; the much-touted “green revolution” has hardly begun. With all that in mind, Friedman sets out the clean-technology breakthroughs we, and the world, will need; he shows that the ET (Energy Technology) revolution will be both transformative and disruptive; and he explains why America must lead this revolution—with the first Green President and a Green New Deal, spurred by the Greenest Generation.

Hot, Flat, and Crowded is classic Thomas L. Friedman—fearless, incisive, forward-looking, and rich in surprising common sense about the world we live in today.

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A column to the cloud base, against a rural country of rice paddies. All around the city was clear air; air pollution ruled in Saigon from the cyclo bikes. Let's get going and live up to what TOm Friedman is telling us about in this vital book. I have been a fan of this movement since 1980, but previous administration's derailed forward progress on this vital issue. Now, if only the Senate will follow through on Obama's urging to do the same. Definitely, everyone should have this book, especially as on June 26/09 the House passed a Clean Energy bill. I bought the book because there is so much between its two covers, that all the information you need is recorded here for further reference. By the way, as a former VN helicopter pilot, I saw what smog looked like in WW II years, as described by Arthur Godfrey, rising over Saigon as I flew up from the Delta.

I think most of us got that point very early on in the book but the repetition was just not necessary unless there was a word or page target that Thomas Friedman was aiming for. As I said earlier I was expecting to see varied solutions but was disappointed to go through so much repetitive info that i had no patience at the end to finish the last part. I was expecting this book to start talking about some solutions at least at the half way mark but it goes on and on giving examples after examples of how each part of the world is now hot flat and crowded. By the time I reached to the solutions part, I was taken straight into this futuristic place where you had the intelligent grid that would reduce our energy consumption and solve all our energy problems.

He does mention Steven Chu of Lawrence Berkeley National laboratory, whom Obama has named as his Energy Secretary. I can only hope that Obama is the type of leader who will be able to get done, or at least get started, what Friedman is hoping for. He points out that this will require strong leadership. The US must wean itself off dirty oil, coal and gas, create a smart grid to increase efficiency, and encourage conservation. Many of the basic facts I already know and understand, but the book brings a lot of things into focus and reiterates the seriousness of the situation. This was rather lightweight reading on a very heavy subject. His basis idea is that the US must be a world leader in what he calls the Energy Climate Era, and create a sustainable energy system that can be adopted by the rest of the world. The book apparently went to press in July of 2008, but he does not mention Obama at all.

This book is about us, the human race, us the American people,us who care about population growth, us that vision the environmental disaster we facing, those that are for change in politics, don't like the way we deal with the those petro-dictators around the world. It is a bit scary book that forecasts not a pleasant future for us, the young, and for our kids.We should all read this book and start finding our next opportunity which will help us financially and will propel the care for the environment.

Friedman's new book is a marvelous example of the author's own values transformation. My review in 2000 of Friedman's book The Lexus and the Olivetree, denounced "the evident lack of sustainability and absence of logic and ethical standards offered by the version of globalization" then depicted by Friedman, but the new work provides essential focus on ecological transformation, with a clear vision for American leadership of the new Energy-Climate Era (E.C.E)., both in spiritual and practical terms, worthy of high praise.