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Thursday, October 16, 2008

Hot, Flat and Crowded Author: Thomas Friedman Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux ASIN: 0374166854

About This Book

Thomas L. Friedman's The World Is Flat helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Friedman now looks at the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy. He proposes that an 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.

Friedman explains a new "Energy-Climate era" through his account of 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 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 posits that the ET (Energy Technology) revolution will be both transformative and disruptive; and he argues that America must lead this revolution—with the first Green President and a Green New Deal, spurred by the Greenest Generation.