Thomas L. Friedman, NY Times columnist, has published the next steps after his acclaimed best=seller, The World is Flat. It's Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America.
HOT=global climate change
FLAT=global middle class growth
CROWDED=global population growth (1Billion more born in next 12 years)
Forget the warm and fuzzy term "global warming", we're experiencing "Global Wierding". Weather is getting wierder: hotter hots, longer droughts, heavier rains and snows, bigger and more destructive storms.
And, the next Chapter of Hot, Flat and Crowded will be written by us. Mr. Friedman's self-proclaimed Version 2.0 will include ideas and proposals sent in from readers: ideas about clean energy, energy efficiency, and conservation; about politics and nation-building.
Have an idea? Post them on his website.
In the words of Sheikh Yamani, former OPEC oil minister, "The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones." It ended because we found something better.
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