| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
438 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Where we are -- 1. Where birds don't fly -- 2. Today's date : 1 E.C.E. Today's weather : hot, flat, and crowded -- pt. 2. How we got here -- 3. Our carbon copies (or, Too many Americans) -- 4. Fill 'er up with dictators -- 5. Global weirding -- 6. The age of Noah -- 7. Energy poverty -- 8. Green is the new red, white, and blue -- pt. 3. How we move forward -- 9. 205 easy ways to save the Earth -- 10. The energy Internet : when IT meets ET -- 11. The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones -- 12. If it isn't boring, it isn't green -- 13. A million Noahs, a million arks -- 14. Outgreening al-Qaeda (or, Buy one, get four free) -- pt. 4. China -- 15. Can Red China become Green China? -- pt. 5. America -- 16. China for a day (but not for two) -- ch. 17. A Democratic China, or a banana republic? -- Acknowledgments -- Index. |
| Summary |
Friedman explains how global warming, rapidly growing populations, and the astonishing expansion of the world's middle class through globalization have produced a planet that is "hot, flat, and crowded." Already the earth is being affected in ways that threaten to make it dangerously unstable. In just a few years, it will be too late to fix things--unless the United States steps up now and takes the lead in a worldwide effort to replace our wasteful, inefficient energy practices with a strategy for clean energy, energy efficiency, and conservation that Friedman calls Code Green. This is a great challenge, Friedman explains, but also a great opportunity, and one that America cannot afford to miss. Not only is American leadership the key to the healing of the earth; it is also our best strategy for the renewal of America. |
| Subject |
Green movement -- United States.
|
|
Green movement. |
|
United States. |
|
Green technology -- United States.
|
|
Green technology. |
|
Climatic changes.
|
|
Climatic changes. |
|
Power resources -- Environmental aspects.
|
|
Power resources -- Environmental aspects. |
|
Environmental policy -- United States.
|
|
Environmental policy. |
|
Energy policy -- United States.
|
|
Energy policy. |
|
United States -- Environmental conditions.
|
|
Environmental conditions. |
|
United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020.
|
| ISBN |
9780374166854 |
|
0374166854 |
|
