Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series) @ richardeward.com

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series)
by Thomas L. Friedman
from Gale Cengage

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• Large Print

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Hot, Flat and Crowded
  I can't get as excited about global warming as Friedman has. First half of book paints worse-case scenarios in my opinion and is very tiresome reading - very repetetive and overdone with metaphors. Solutions in latter half of book are interesting, but are they all possible or necessary? Am usually a big fan of Friedman's recent op-eds, so a bit disappointed with the book.

• 30% recycled content
  Haven't read more than the synopsis yet, but are we to believe Friedman's call for a "green revolution" when it's published on 70% new paper, and only 30% recycled material?
  That's a revolution?
  When Friedman apologizes for his part in cheerleading for the waste of over a trillion dollars in Iraq, money which would be enough to make all the renewable fuel we would ever need, then he can say he's serious.
  Sorry, Tom, some of your ideas are good, but they're coming from someone living in a... more info

• Deeply Intriguing Ideas Buried by Breezy Style
  Thomas Friedman's writing is new to me, and from the glowing reviews of this book I expected a little bit more. I'm a climate change professional and one of those "revolutionary bureaucrats" that he praises in his book for doing the real work in protecting human health and the environment (thank you, Mr. Friedman), and I agree with 95 percent of his ideas and solutions - especially placing the true price of dirty fuel back onto the consumer (only then will people choose clean energy over dirty fuels). I... more info

• Interest and Thoughtful as usual but a tad over long
  Thomas Friedman is one of the most insightful and thought provoking writers of the current era. Hot, Flat and Crowded does what each of Friedman's works do, they make you think and they provoke a discussion on the topic that he brings up. The nice thing about Friedman is that he isn't some gloom and doom prophet but more a cheerleader of change. I think that Friedman's greatest ability is that he gets people to discuss change without polarizing like so many other writers.
  If there is one downside to... more info

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