Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution -- and How It Can Renew America @ richardeward.com

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution -- and How It Can Renew America
by Thomas L. Friedman
from Macmillan Audio

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Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Disappointing - a poor work from a likeable author
  The problem with this work is that in order for it to be reasonable, one must accept Mr. Friedman's premise: that the earth is getting hotter, flatter, and more crowded. While it is not a stretch to believe these things, he presents them as an emergency. Without the emergency he initially creates the rest of the book loses its steam. while some aspects of the premise may be true, the attempt to make it alarming diminishes its credibility. The problems I had with the premise were:
  1) As far as I have... more info

• Kindle edition lacks usable index
  The Kindle edition of this work lacks a usable index. The index is provided as a list of terms without section numbers that would correspond to pages. Selecting an index term defines it rather than linking to it. Using search on terms provides different results than the printed index. For example, in the printed version, the term appliance is qualified with four subcategories that include 15 separate page listings and three multi-page sections. Querying "appliance" using Kindle search returns 9 pages of 53... more info

• Great and Thought and Action Required Provoking Book!
  Purchase as a gift for a 20+ yr. old, but this older generation - 60+ thinks it's very relevant and demands a response in action.

• Hot, Flat and Crowded
  Friedman has the ability to make the complex seem obvious. Everyone who reads his books will develop a different understanding of our impact on the world as a whole. This book is no exception.

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