Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America

Thomas L. Friedman

Nov 2009 · Sold by Picador

About this ebook

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year
A Businessweek Best Business Book of the Year
A Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year

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 2.0 is classic Thomas L. Friedman: fearless, incisive, forward-looking, and rich in surprising common sense about the challenge--and the promise--of the future.

Ratings and reviews

The book Hot, Flat, and Crowded is a powerful book that takes the readers imagination to see the world through many different perspectives. The first half of the book teaches you about how and why the world is becoming hot, flat, and crowded. The second half shows the solution to save the world from the terrible future mankind has created. Overall, reading Hot, Flat, and Crowded not only motivates you, but it makes you more aware of your surroundings and the beautiful world around you.

A disappointing book, I really don't feel like I learned anything new, by reading this book. I found $20 a gallon to be a much better book. The book read like a bad commercial for Democrats. The book takes a native view of the energy problem.

From the author that sold us the disaster that was globalization and long supply chains on his book "the world is flat"...a new vision...now promising another nonsense utopia that will for sure work this time!!

About the author

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize three times for his work with The New York Times, where he serves as the foreign affairs columnist. He is the author of From Beirut to Jerusalem (1989), The Lexus and the Olive Tree (1999), Longitudes and Attitudes (2002), and The World is Flat (2005). He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.