|  | Author: Thomas L. Friedman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Rating:  245 reviews
Sales Rank: 697
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 448
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 5.7 x 1.4
ISBN: 0374166854
Dewey Decimal Number: 320.58
EAN: 9780374166854
ASIN: 0374166854
Publication Date: September 8, 2008
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 Friedman's latest June 27, 2009
John Nesbitt (Portland, OR)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Hot, Flat and Crowded is timely, well researched and important. If we could only get policy makers to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest the contents, the world would be a much better place.
John Nesbitt
Hot, Flat, and Crowded June 27, 2009
David L. Eastman (Center Sandwich, NH)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Definitely, everyone should have this book, especially as on June 26/09 the House passed a Clean Energy bill. Now, if only the Senate will follow through on Obama's urging to do the same. I bought the book because there is so much between its two covers, that all the information you need is recorded here for further reference. I have been a fan of this movement since 1980, but previous administration's derailed forward progress on this vital issue. Let's get going and live up to what TOm Friedman is telling us about in this vital book! By the way, as a former VN helicopter pilot, I saw what smog looked like in WW II years, as described by Arthur Godfrey, rising over Saigon as I flew up from the Delta. A column to the cloud base, against a rural country of rice paddies...... All around the city was clear air; air pollution ruled in Saigon from the cyclo bikes.
 Hugely disappointed June 21, 2009
Shakeel Akhtar
14 out of 17 found this review helpful
I was expecting this book to start talking about some solutions at least at the half way mark but it goes on and on giving examples after examples of how each part of the world is now hot flat and crowded. I think most of us got that point very early on in the book but the repetition was just not necessary unless there was a word or page target that Thomas Friedman was aiming for. By the time I reached to the solutions part, I was taken straight into this futuristic place where you had the intelligent grid that would reduce our energy consumption and solve all our energy problems. As I said earlier I was expecting to see varied solutions but was disappointed to go through so much repetitive info that i had no patience at the end to finish the last part.
Lightweight but interesting June 17, 2009
Vern Buchholz (Burnaby, BC)
This was rather lightweight reading on a very heavy subject. Many of the basic facts I already know and understand, but the book brings a lot of things into focus and reiterates the seriousness of the situation. His basis idea is that the US must be a world leader in what he calls the Energy Climate Era, and create a sustainable energy system that can be adopted by the rest of the world. The US must wean itself off dirty oil, coal and gas, create a smart grid to increase efficiency, and encourage conservation. He points out that this will require strong leadership. The book apparently went to press in July of 2008, but he does not mention Obama at all. He does mention Steven Chu of Lawrence Berkeley National laboratory, whom Obama has named as his Energy Secretary. I can only hope that Obama is the type of leader who will be able to get done, or at least get started, what Friedman is hoping for.
A book for americans about competition, environment, (petro) politics, and us June 14, 2009
Hanoch Raviv
This book is about us, the human race, us the American people,us who care about population growth, us that vision the environmental disaster we facing, those that are for change in politics, don't like the way we deal with the those petro-dictators around the world. It is a bit scary book that forecasts not a pleasant future for us, the young, and for our kids.
We should all read this book and start finding our next opportunity which will help us financially and will propel the care for the environment.
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