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i am thinking what is my status and how can i grip this opportunity. when there is crisis ther is chance. it told me what is our problem now and what is our solution.
It will require a radical rethinking of how we live, work and play.His final argument is that this same need to develop technologies to save our planet will benefit us economically. It's not bad enough that the American way of life is the worst in terms of pollution. His thinking is that the same ingenuity and resourcefulness that were responsible for the rise of America, making it the aspirational lifestyle of the third world, can be channeled into new, green industries that will mitigate the worst effects of climate change.He rightly points out that it will take more than the lists of "easy ways to go green" that are so popular these days. The effect of that many people all living an American lifestyle would be devastating for our planet.Fortunately, Mr.
I've been reading books on climate change for years. Whole new industries will arise and new jobs, which are so desperately needed now, will be created. There is nothing easy about going green to save the planet. Almost all of them deal with just the science behind climate change and how science can stop or reverse climate change.
Friedman's thesis goes on to say that economics can save the world that we are currently destroying. No matter how you look at it, ecologically or economically, we cannot afford not to go green. Thomas Friedman's book looks at climate change from an economic point of view.His thesis is that climate change is caused be economics. Even worse is that the citizens of the developing world aspire to an American lifestyle.
I cannot review Hot, Flat and Crowded because I never received it although I ordered it from Amazon on 5/21/09.
I gave the book just four stars because Friedman should have trimmed about 50 pages from the manuscript. The author also helps readers consider how yesterday's answers became today's challenges; new medicines and greater food yields spurred overpopulation, while many technological innovations meant increased U.S. Not that moving towards a greener society will be particularly easy; the author shows why the scientific, engineering, and capital challenges are considerable. Still, this is an insightful, forward-thinking book, and fairly easy to read. This book should make readers understand (if they don't already) why President G.W. Journalist Thomas Friedman provides another winner with his superb analysis of global warming, energy dependence, and the economic consequences of an increasingly ravaged planet.
As Friedman demonstrates, either we take the lead, or we risk getting beaten out by other nations. dependence on foreign oil. Unlike many politicians, Friedman sees why we in the USA need to take action to make our nation more energy independent. Bush was such a disaster - his lack of vision and kowtowing to oil companies left us further behind, more in debt, and more endangered from extremism. Too bad many of our lawmakers won't have the smarts (or guts) to read it. Friedman also lays out a sensible plan for government investment, capital formation, and mostly free market approaches to making us a "green" nation with renewable energy and far less dependence on coal and foreign oil.
But he also shows why the risks of doing nothing are much worse.
Interesting and worthwhile read. He captures the urgency of addressing these issues and suggests ways to do so. No, it's not a book about Chicago in the summer. This latest work of Thomas Friedman, the Pulitzer winner from the New York Times, discusses global warming, the worldwide rise of the middle class, and the ever increasing population growth.
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