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
Ann Ngugi –
I have read many books but non has captivated me like the Midnight Sun. God bless the writer.
Vivian Sharon –
“If your baby is raised by you alone how will you convince her that marriage is good, what marriage advice will give you her when she will be of your age? your so-learned generation is a great threat to marriage and the subsequent generations,” Ajuma was furiously dogged to drive her point home.
The Midnight Sun is a beautifully woven story about two young Teso lovers-Ejakait and Nasirumbi. They meet when they’re both in college, but their love is soon tested and they break up at a time when Nasirumbi need Ejakait most.
The story is so rich in Iteso culture. I literally felt like I was drinking Akipi from Teso land. The author brings out heated issues surrounding girl child education, single motherhood, feminism and marriage.
What does an educated, single mother in a deeply rooted traditional culture got to do? Agree to marry anyone because it is shameful to have a child and stay unmarried? Leave her child to her parents because the man intending to marry her is doing her a favor and doesn’t want the burden of bringing up a child he didn’t sire?
The role of education in marriage is also greatly contested in the book. At some point I felt angry at the author’s perspective, carefully placed in dialogues. I won’t tell you why. But you can get a copy and make your own judgement.