Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America Thomas L. Friedman(2008)In this brilliant, essential book, Pulitzer Prize winning author Thomas L. Friedman speaks to America's urgent need for national renewal and explains how a green revolution can bring about both a sustainable environment and a sustainable America. Friedman explains how global warming, rapidly growing populations, and the expansion of the worlds middle class through globalization have produced a dangerously unstable planet one that is "hot, flat, and