| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
438 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
I. WHERE WE ARE. Where birds don't fly -- Today's date: 1 E.C.E. Today's weather: hot, flat, and crowded -- II. HOW WE GOT HERE. Our carbon copies (or, too many Americans) -- Fill 'er up with dictators -- Global weirding -- The age of Noah -- Energy poverty -- Green is the new red, white, and blue -- III. HOW WE MOVE FORWARD. 205 easy ways to save the earth -- The energy internet: when IT meets ET -- The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones -- If it isn't boring, it isn't green -- A million Noahs, a million arks -- Outgreening al-Qaeda (or, buy one, get four free) -- IV. CHINA. Can red China become green China? -- V. AMERICA. China for a day (but not for two) -- A democratic China, or a banana republic? |
| Summary |
Friedman's bestseller "The World Is Flat" has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now the author brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy. |
| Study Program |
AR RL 10.9 PTS 39.0 153969 |
| Subject |
Green movement -- United States.
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Climatic changes -- Research -- Government policy -- United States.
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Power resources -- United States -- Forecasting.
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Renewable energy sources -- United States -- States.
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Environmental policy -- United States -- Forecasting.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
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United States -- Environmental conditions.
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| ISBN |
0374166854 |
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9780374166854 |
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