Thomas Friedman - Hot, Flat, & Crowded--Why We Need a Green Revolution

 Thomas L. Friedman's latest book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded--Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America  (FSG 2008), brings a "fresh and provocative outlook to the two biggest challenges we face today: America's surprising loss of focus and national purpose since 9/11; and the global environmental crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy, which is affecting everything from food to fuel to forests. In this ground breaking account of where we stand now and how we got here, he shows us how the solutions to these two big problems are linked"--how restoring the economy by restoring the environment (i.e., sustainability) will also revive America at the same time! He sees this response as an imperative in the face of the dire consequences for humanity from the great climate destabilzation, and calls the response "Code Green," envisioning the need for a war-time-type mobilization to avoid the worst results of global warming and to invent the ecologically sustainable and empowered economy that is our only option for durable prosperity and security. This was/is the essential hope underlying the industrial revolution and the American experiment, and America can and should honor its history by renewing that role and world leadership with Code Green.

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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. Friedman has reported on 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. Friedman currently writes a syndicated column for the New York Times on related issues.

Friedman is the author of From Beirut to Jerusalem (FSG, 1989), 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(FSG, 1999), 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. 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. His latest book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded (FSG 2008), brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy.