Brief Summary
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America
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.
ISBN:9780374166854
Author:Thomas Friedman
Kiruki –
Until the Lion knows how to write, the story of the hunt always glorifies the hunter!
This is the predicament of many Africans as their stories out there are told by their conquerors. In many cases, what should come out heroic and simmering with bravado limbs in Ignominiously and sits at the back without so much as arousing a whiff of excitement from the congregation! This is the narrative ABANTU seeks to neutralize.
ABANTU is the story of the Mt Kenya Bantu chronicling the long journey from the Nile to Mt Kenya – also called Kirimaara by the Ameru, the earliest settlers in the region. The book covers and demystifies many commonly talked about myths of origin of the Agikuyu, Aembu, Akamba, Abagusii and the Ameru. In the process, it creates a common thread that sews them back together as they left the ancient kingdom of Meroe circa 300 AD.
Cultural ceremonies of Ngurario, circumcision and warfare are covered in interesting detail that should incite the reader to carry out more research…
… AND,… DID YOU KNOW THAT THE MAASAI ARE GENETIC COUSINS OF THE MT KENYA BANTU?
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