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A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Best Book of the Year A Businessweek Best Business Book of the Year A Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year In this brilliant, essential book, Thomas L. Friedman speaks to America’s need for national... read more
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“Once you've tramped through the Amazonian rain forests of Peru, dodged wild boar, and fed macaws from your shoulder at your breakfast table, you'll want to save it”
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“The Wyoming farm is so vast it is a tourist site, like the Hoover Dam, with turbines as far as the eye can see”
First Sentence
In June 2004, I was visiting London with my daughter Orly, and one evening we went to see the play Billy Elliot at a theater near Victoria Station.
Table of Contents
PART i: WHERE WE ARE
1. Where Birds Don't Fly 3
2. Today's Date: 1 E.C.E. Today's Weather: Hot, Flat, and Crowded 26
PART II: HOW WE GOT HERE
3. Our Carbon Copies (or, Too Many Americans) 53
4. Fill 'Er Up with Dictators 77
5. Global Weirding 111
6. The Age of Noah 140
7. Energy Poverty 154
8. Green Is the New Red, White, and Blue 170
PART III: HOW WE MOVE FORWARD
9. 205 Easy Ways to Save the Earth 203
10. The Energy Internet: When IT Meets ET 217
11. The Stone Age Didn't End Because We Ran Out of Stones 241
12. If It Isn't Boring, It Isn't Green 267
13. A Million Noahs, a Million Arks 297
14. Outgreening al-Qaeda (or, Buy One, Get Four Free) 317
PART IV: CHINA
15. Can Red China Become Green China? 343
PART V: AMERICA
16. China for a Day (but Not for Two) 371
17. A Democratic China, or a Banana Republic? 395
Acknowledgments 415
Index 423
Authors & Contributors
- Thomas L. Friedman (Author)
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