Hot Flat & Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution & How the U.S. Can Lead It -A Video
The best chapter in New York Times reporter Thomas L. Friedman's new book, Hot, Flat and Crowded, traces the correlation between the price of oil and the pace
of freedom in petroleum- producing states between 1975 and 2005. When
prices went up, freedom went down in places such as Iran, Russia and
Nigeria.
"America's problem," Friedman writes, "is that it has lost its way in recent years,'' he says. Earth's problem is that it's getting ``hot, flat and crowded. That is, global warming, the stunning rise of middle classes all over the world, and rapid population growth have converged in a way that could make our planet dangerously unstable.''















