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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 is classic Thomas L. Friedman: fearless, incisive, forward-looking, and rich in surprising common sense about the challenge--and the promise--of the future.
Thomas L. Friedman, a world-renowned author and journalist, joined The New York Times in 1981 as a financial reporter specializing in OPEC- and oil-related news and later served as the chief diplomatic, chief White House, and international economics correspondents. A three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he has traveled hundreds of thousands of miles reporting the Middle East conflict, the end of the cold war, U.S. domestic politics and foreign policy, international economics, and the worldwide impact of the terrorist threat. His foreign affairs column, which appears twice a week in the Times, is syndicated to seven hundred other newspapers worldwide.Friedman is the author of From Beirut to Jerusalem, which won both the National Book Award and the Overseas Press Club Award in 1989 and was on the New York Times bestseller list for nearly twelve months. From Beirut to Jerusalem has been published in more than twenty-seven languages, including Chinese and Japanese, and is now used as a basic textbook on the Middle East in many high schools and universities. Friedman also wrote The Lexus and the Olive Tree, one of the best selling business books in 1999, and the winner of the 2000 Overseas Press Club Award for best nonfiction book on foreign policy. It is now available in twenty languages. Another of his books, Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11, consists of columns Friedman published about September 11 as well as a diary of his private experiences and reflections during his reporting on the post-September world as he traveled from Afghanistan to Israel to Europe to Indonesia to Saudi Arabia. In 2005, The World Is Flat was given the first Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, and Friedman was named one of America's Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report.Friedman graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis University with a degree in Mediterranean studies and received a master's degree in modern Middle East studies from Oxford. He has served as a visiting professor at Harvard University and has been awarded honorary degrees from several U.S. universities. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his wife, Ann, and their two daughters. A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year网友对Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America的评论
完全就是旧书 亚马逊要干什么 像是图书馆里拿出来被几百个人蹂躏过一样
当然Friedman的书是好书 冲着内容给三颗星
Friedman's work is always provocative with a cautionary tone followed by an optimistic outlook. Although this as well as his previous books are somewhat dated (this one doesn't take into account the recent natural gas boom created by fracking), the general message remains as true and pertinent today as when it was written (since our politicians don't have the courage to overcome the lobbyists of the wealthy and enact these long term policies). The book really could be about 2/3 the length as Friedman does have a tendency to continue to hammer well established concepts over and over to emphasize his points but you can see this coming and skip ahead fairly easy. If you don't want to commit to the whole book you should at least read the story about First Solar in the latter part of the book. That says a lot about the power of the elite pulling us in the wrong direction.
We can save the world by demanding all G8 leaders adopt this political platform and tell the big fossil fuel and utility companies to get on board or be left behind. Our government must set the right price signals and tax structure for R&D for renewable energy. We must take our government back from these companies for the long term survival of the species and to reshape the environment and the world's economy. The G8 and/or U.S. can lead this or be left behind. This book enhanced my thinking that this must be done soon. We need to make sure our governments get the backbone to make the changes necessary. Are we going to wait until we have reached the tipping point? We will probably not plan ahead and react to disasters that may wipe us out. Read the book and talk to your elected officials. If they say this is crazy then you know they are not a visionary leader or have been bought by big business and need to be VOTED out. The dumbing down of America must stop!!!! We need to wake up, get off our assess and demand a platform that is outlined in this book. We should be tired of those with the money being greedy to the point of making the rest of us suffer and eventually die so they can live for the now. The way we are going is not sustainable and we have crapped in our own nest. Stop the insanity!!!
Every politician running for president should read this book. Friedman gets it - politicos have no clue. Humans, especially those in charge, need to awaken to the fundamental issues facing our planet, not debate the issues we have all seen on TV. If we don't address fundamental issues of water, energy, population growth and climate change, immigration and Isis will be the least of our problems.
It's too bad Friedman isn't a candidate, but it's unlikely he'd get elected; he's too knowledgeable and logical.
Hot, Flat and Crowded: Book Review
The latest book by Thomas Friedman, Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why the World Needs a Green Revolution, and How It Can Revolutionize America, beseeches America to lead the world in what Friedman terms a green revolution. In the book he urges America to demolish the walls it has built post-911 and rebuild relationships with the world to accomplish the daunting task of reworking our entire way of life to meet the challenges of an ever more populated, flat, and undeniably warming world. Anyone who has an interest in the new green revolution or feels that the world needs a change for the better would truly benefit from the author's insight, anecdotes, facts, and plans to change the world.
Thomas Friedman's depth of knowledge of world affairs is truly remarkable once one delves into one of his books. His apparent, extensive research and personal interviews with some of the world's leading businessmen, politicians, and world leaders is a break from the media blitz that has surrounded climate change and the green revolution. Besides presenting mounds of facts, statistics, and current events, the author provides perspective on those events and how they relate to one another, making it easier for people who may not have as deep a knowledge of world affairs to understand the true implications of the global threats we face daily.
This reviewer appreciates a writer who not only presents the facts and the situation, but has a plan to solve it. Throughout the book, Friedman presents logical, fact based plans to right the wrongs of society to promote conservation, reduce energy use, and bring the U.S. back to its rightful position as leader of the free world. Friedman manages to cut through to the heart of climate change and global crowding and provide real solutions rather than simply relating the facts as so many other authors do. Hot, Flat and Crowded is simply one of the best books on climate change that the market has to offer.
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