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

By: Friedman, Thomas L.
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008Description: 438 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780374166854.Subject(s): 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-DDC classification: 320.58
Contents:
Where we are -- Where birds don't fly -- Today's date : 1 E.C.E. Today's weather : hot, flat, and crowded -- How we got here -- Our carbon copies (or, Too many Americans) -- Fill 'er up with dictators -- Global weirding -- age of Noah -- Energy poverty -- Green is the new red, white, and blue -- How we move forward -- 205 easy ways to save the Earth -- energy Internet : when IT meets ET -- Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones -- If it isn't boring, it isn't green -- million Noahs, a million arks -- Outgreening al-Qaeda (or, Buy one, get four free) -- China -- Can Red China become Green China? -- America -- China for a day (but not for two) -- Democratic China, or a banana republic? -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: 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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Includes index.

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.

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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