Hot, flat, and crowded : why we need a green revolution - and how it can renew America / Thomas L. Friedman.

• I. WHERE WE ARE. Where birds don't fly -- Today's date: 1 E.C.E. Today's weather: hot, flat, and crowded -- II. HOW WE GOT HERE. Our carbon copies (or, too many Americans) -- Fill 'er up with dictators -- Global weirding -- The age of Noah -- Energy poverty -- Green is the new red, white, and blue -- III. HOW WE MOVE FORWARD. 205 easy ways to save the earth -- The energy internet: when IT meets ET -- The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones -- If it isn't boring, it isn't green -- A million Noahs, a million arks -- Outgreening al-Qaeda (or, buy one, get four free) -- IV. CHINA. Can red China become green China? -- V. AMERICA. China for a day (but not for two) -- A democratic China, or a banana republic?. 

• Friedman's bestseller "The World Is Flat" has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now the author brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy. 

Ämnesord

Miljöpolitik  -- Förenta staterna (sao)

Miljöfrågor  -- Förenta staterna (sao)

Gröna rörelsen  -- Förenta staterna (sao)

Green movement  -- United States. (LCSH)

environmental policies  (agrovoc)

energy policies  (agrovoc)

climatic change  (agrovoc)

environmental protection  (agrovoc)

socioeconomic organization  (agrovoc)

government  (agrovoc)

usa  (agrovoc)

china  (agrovoc)

United States  -- Social conditions -- 1980- (LCSH)

United States  -- Environmental conditions. (LCSH)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Uh-qa Miljöfrågor och naturskydd: Förenta staterna

O-qa Samhällsvetenskap och rättsvetenskap: Förenta staterna

Klassifikation

GE197 (LCC)

363.7/0525/0973 (DDC)

Uh-qa (kssb/8)

O-qa (kssb/8)