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Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why the World Needs a Green Revolution - and How We Can Renew Our Global Future
by: Thomas L. Friedman

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9781846141294
ISBN: 184614129X
Label: Allen Lane
Manufacturer: Allen Lane
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: September 08, 2008
Publisher: Allen Lane
Studio: Allen Lane
Sales Rank: 2289

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- A Call for Laws, Regulations, and Tax Incentives for Encouraging Conservation and Clean Energy Use
If you oppose conservation and clean energy, I wonder why you would. Typical concerns relate to when conservation and clean energy reduce economic growth or reduce profits for some special interest in the near term. Longer term, most people would agree that conservation and clean energy make sense.

Journalist and social activist Thomas L. Friedman could have written a much shorter book if he had simply started with the premise that it's a good idea to have conservation and clean energy. He spends most of the book providing arguments in favor of those approaches.

Those arguments are related to these propositions:

1. Rising carbon dioxide levels are either causing global warming and more violent weather . ... Read More:

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- Doable, Win-Win Plan

In Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America, Thomas Friedman presents an irresistible opportunity for Americans--one that can save the planet and increase our wealth.

The world is flat because of globalization--which is good, as ideas and practices can spread effectively. What is not so good is that our world population is exploding and countries like India and China are seeing an increase in wealth, which puts more strain on the world's resources and increases global warming.

Friedman begins the book with a discussion of how America has changed post 9/11. He uses the example of the US consulate built in 1882 in Istanbul. The consulate was built in the heart of the ... Read More:

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