Hot, flat, and crowded : why we need a green revolution--and how it can renew America / Thomas L. Friedman

Author:: Friedman, Thomas L.
Published:: New York : Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2009]
Edition:: Release 2.0, updated and expanded ; 1st Picador ed.
Physical Description:: viii, 516 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

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Why Citibank, Iceland's banks, and the Ice Banks of Antarctica all melted down at the same time -- Dumb as we wanna be -- The re-generation -- Today's date 1 E.C.E. Today's weather: hot, flat, and crowded -- Our carbon copies (or, Too many Americans) -- Fill 'er up with dictators -- Global weirding -- The age of Noah -- Energy poverty -- Green is the new red, white, and blue -- 205 easy ways to save the Earth -- The energy Internet: when IT meets ET -- The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones -- If it isn't boring, it isn't green -- A million Noahs, a million arks -- Outgreening al-Qaeda (or Buy one, get four free) -- Can Red China become Green China? -- PART V: AMERICA: China for a day (but not for two) -- A democratic China, or a banana republic?

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9780312428921 (pbk.)
0312428928 (pbk.)
9781442090972 (hbk.)
1442090979 (hbk.)

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Includes index.

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Includes index.

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