Hot, Flat, and CrowdedRecommendations

Thomas L. Friedman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, speaks to America's urgent need for national rebirth and shows how a green revolution may bring about both a sustainable environment and a sustainable America in this brilliant, vital work.

Friedman shows how global warming, fast expanding populations, and globalization's extension of the global middle class have resulted in a potentially unstable planet that is "hot, flat, and crowded." He also demonstrates how the same practices that drove us to devastate the natural environment led to the financial markets collapsing and the Great Recession in this Release 2.0 edition. The challenge of living a sustainable lifestyle provides the United States with a chance to not only restore its economy, but also to lead the world in innovative energy innovation. And it has the potential to inspire Americans to do something we haven't seen in a long time: nation-building in America, by mobilizing our finest national resources of knowledge, creativity, and concern for the common good.

Thomas L. Friedman's book Hot, Flat, and Crowded is vintage Thomas L. Friedman: daring, sharp, forward-looking, and full of astonishing common sense about the future's challenge—and opportunity.