Hot, Flat, and Crowded
Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America
Ranked #9 in Global Warming, Ranked #12 in Energy — see more rankings.
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... more
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Barack Obama Former USA PresidentHe may have the country’s finest experts at his fingertips, but it still doesn’t hurt to read up on environmental and economic issues. (Source)
Bill Gates CEO/Microsoft[On Bill Gates's reading list in 2011.] (Source)
Jonathon Porritt Thomas Friedman is an American commentator and a bit of a business guru. This book is lively, beautifully written, full of personal anecdotes. I should say that Friedman used to piss me off more than most other writers because he never talked about resources, climate change, population growth – these were invisible issues for him. Then, a few years ago, something changed and he started to address all this. (Source)
Rankings by Category
Hot, Flat, and Crowded is ranked in the following categories:
- #27 in Climate Change
- #66 in Current Affairs
- #23 in Environment
- #88 in Environmental Studies
- #35 in Environmentalism
- #35 in Sustainability
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