Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and how it Can Renew America
- ISBN-10
- 1410407071
- ISBN-13
- 9781410407078
- Category
- Climatic changes
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Gale Cengage
- Author
- Thomas L. Friedman
Description
Examines America's surprising loss of focus and national purpose since 9/11 and the global environmental crisis, and shows how the solutions to these two problems are linked-- we can restore the world and revive America at the same time.
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- 2008-09-08
- 438 pages
- Paperback
- Macmillan
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