In his new tome Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – And How It Can Renew America (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008) Thomas Friedman pulls no punches on his concerns for the country’s future. The title — Hot, Flat and Crowded — refers to the planet’s global warming crisis, the rise of the middle class throughout the world and over population — and he says to counter that, “green” must become the new “red, white and blue”.
