Hot, Flat, and Crowded (Audio)
ISBN:
9781427204615 (1427204616)
Publish date: September 8th 2008
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Edition language: English
I found Friendman's writing style too sensationalist to take as seriously as The World is Flat. I still learned a fair amount, and can climb on board with Friedman's environmental idealism, but did not appreciate the right-wing slandering and political bias.
Really deep insight into global warming and energy transformation issues. Friedman described various aspects of economy mechanisms beyond oil industry and recent depression. Defined main goals for America's development concerning ecology/energy challenges. His address is alarming and slightly exagge...
TOOOO much repetition. Too many words (and that from an adjective/adverb-loving person!).
This should be mandatory reading for President-Elect Obama! With so much of our money going to petro-dictators who are not our friends, we need the Federal government to step up to the plate, realize that global warming is ruining the Earth and do something about it NOW! The Big Oil lobby has been r...
Hot, Flat and Crowded can be translated as climate change, globalization, and population growth. This book is a followup to the author's best-selling The World Is Flat, a book about globalization of business. This book examines how globalization can continue in a way that doesn't doom the world du...
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