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Thomas L. Friedman’s no. 1 bestseller The World Is Even has helped an incredible number of readers to see globalization in a fresh way. Now Friedman brings a brand new outlook to the crises of destabilizing environment change and growing competition for energy—both which could poison the world if we do not work quickly and collectively. His discussion speaks to all of us who are concerned about the status of America in the global future.

Friedman proposes an ambitious national strategy— which he telephone calls “Geo-Greenism”—isn't just what we have to save the planet from overheating; it is exactly what we have to make America healthier, richer, more impressive, more effective, and more secure.

As in The World Is Even, he talks about a new period—the Energy-Climate period—via an illuminating account of recent incidents. He shows how 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the flattening of the world by the web (which brought 3 billion new consumers onto the earth level) have put together to bring environment and energy issues to Main Streets. But they have never gone very considerably down Main Streets; the much-touted “inexperienced trend” has hardly started. With all that at heart, Friedman pieces out the clean-technology breakthroughs we, and the earth, will require; he shows that the ET (Energy Technology) trend will be both transformative and disruptive; and he talks about why America must lead this trend—with the first Green President and a Green New Package, spurred by the Greenest Era.

Hot, Even, and Crowded is classic Thomas L. Friedman—fearless, incisive, forward-looking, and abundant with surprising good sense about the earth we live in today.