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Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America |  | Author: Thomas L. Friedman
Publisher: Picador
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ISBN: 0312428928
Dewey Decimal Number: 320.58
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Publication Date: November 24, 2009
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A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
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In this brilliant, essential book, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas L. Friedman speaks to America's urgent need for national renewal and explains how a green revolution can bring about both a sustainable environment and a sustainable America. Friedman explains how global warming, rapidly growing populations, and the expansion of the world’s middle class through globalization have produced a dangerously unstable planet--one that is "hot, flat, and crowded." In this Release 2.0 edition, he also shows how the very habits that led us to ravage the natural world led to the meltdown of the financial markets and the Great Recession. The challenge of a sustainable way of life presents the United States with an opportunity not only to rebuild its economy, but to lead the world in radically innovating toward cleaner energy. And it could inspire Americans to something we haven't seen in a long time--nation-building in America--by summoning the intelligence, creativity, and concern for the common good that are our greatest national resources. Hot, Flat, and Crowded is classic Thomas L. Friedman: fearless, incisive, forward-looking, and rich in surprising common sense about the challenge--and the promise--of the future.
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 great insight September 8, 2010
Kevin (Crofton, MD United States)
good read. deep, but good. great insight to back reasons for shifting to low carbon society and eliminate consumerism. highly recommend.
 Just the new three chapters justify reading the book again September 6, 2010
Emc2 (Tropical Utopia)
Friedman hardcover edition happened to be published just a few weeks before the 2008 global financial meltdown began, and he also missed the Obama election. For this second edition, or version 2.0 as he likes to call it, these events were factored in, and the result is an updated and expanded paperback edition with three new chapters added at the beginning, and when appropriate, he made minor updates throughout the book, mainly regarding the financial crisis.
The Great Recession, as Friedman called it, provided him with the opportunity to make a clever parallel between the crises in the "Markets" and "Mother Nature" and emphasized his original arguments regarding the unsustainable path that the U.S. has been following in the last decades, to the point of becoming the "Grasshopper Generation". The new three chapters provide a very strong leverage for the remaining of the original content. For those who already had read the first edition I do recommend reading version 2.0. The discussion presented in the new three chapters is worth every penny you will pay for it, particularly for Americans.
You can read my full review of the 2008 edition here (Hot, Flat, and Crowded - Hardcover). In summary, this is a comprehensive and well-researched book intended for the American public, and despite being very American-centric, definitively is of interest for readers of all nationalities. I think he is very idealistic regarding the solutions but indeed he is very realistic in the diagnosis and in analyzing all the good reasons for the US to move away from the current carbon society, whether global warming is real or not, as he also notes in the book. Friedman often becomes very annoying, as he tells one too many personal anecdotes to the point of "show off". Also he is so vehement in his cause that ends up repeating some phases "ad nauseam", particularly "abundant, clean, reliable, and cheap electrons". It really makes you feel he is trying to make you memorize a prayer.
If you wonder why I change my grading from version 1.0 to version 2.0, I believe the new materials merit a revision of my original rating from 3 to 4 stars.
 Wasted Opportunity July 29, 2010
J. Beardsley (MD USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Thomas Friedman's, "Hot, Flat, and Crowded" may have contained some promise as a legitimate essay on the condition of the world today, and the opportunity the United States has to lead in new endeavors. Instead, Friedman wasted his efforts by continuing the same diatribe of bigger government, blaming conservatism for everything, and citing discredited science (without actually delivering much in the way of scientific facts) as absolute proof of global warming. Some of his points were valid - the United States cannot squander opportunities to lead the rest of the world in any kind of opportunity - including the development of alternate energy sources. Also, his points on petro-dictatorship like Saudi Arabia were very accurate. Unfortunately, his good points were drowned out by his utter insistence to tow the party line on demonizing those who could actually deliver the results he is looking for in his Code Green (excuse me while I laugh a bit) endeavor. Friedman and his counterparts continuously fail to see that if they ever want to get to the point of actually realizing alternate sources of energy, they must not demonize conservative; instead, they need to free the forces of free enterprise and conservatives to solve the problem. Government in and of itself is utterly incapable of this feat.
Fantastic book, that the U.S. should read, accept and implement! July 20, 2010
hmccaffe
This is an exceptional book that highlights the flaws of America. The author outlines steps for implementing change to reduce the U.S. addiction to petroleum products, to reform international financial practices and to develop environmental products and services.
100% On Target June 16, 2010
William LaFleur (Maine)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved this book for a couple of reasons. First, it is chock full of factual data. Page after page has quotes from studies or statements by informed people showing that we really are in trouble and need to do something about it. Second I agree totally with his proposed solution. The American free market, when properly guided, can do just about anything. Send the right price signal and we'll change the world.
One anecdote I should relate as well. I was recently in Costa Rica [which itself has a great track record on environmental friendliness] talking to Costa Ricans and few people from India. They were relating how more and more they are becoming "Americanized". Big houses, big cars, the kids play video games, they eat more meat, etc. When I talked about how the idea of billions more Americans could be scary for the planet, they said, "Oh, we know that." Then when I asked why they don't come up with a new way of doing things, they said, "We can't. We want so badly to be like you that the consequences be d--ned. If the world is going to change, you Americans are going to have to lead the way..."
Friedman is 100% on target with this book, I wish I could buy a copy for everyone in the country...
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