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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America

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Good subject, interesting points, bored of the repetition -
Friedman has some interesting and new insight into the need for a green revolution. I wish he was a little more concise with getting that insight out in book form. I am afraid you lose your audience when you repeat yourself and use the same argument for multiple issues. I am glad that I stuck it out and finished the book so that I could get the whole perspective, but I saw him speak later and got the same information in a 2 hour lecture without the repetition. I hate it when a book that takes me quite some time to read can be wrapped up in a 2 hour talk without losing any content.

The time is now -
This is an important work that explains something I've been feeling for a long time but couldn't put into words: It is imperitave that we have a green energy revolution. It needs to be done for the the human race to survive and thrive. If the US takes charge, we could lead the next lifestyle revolution. It would benefit our economy and take money away from the oil producers who hate us anyway. I wish I had the money to buy 1,000 copies and mail them to every politician and business leader I could find.

That said, the reason I gave this 4 stars, not 5, is because 2/3 of the book could have been edited out with no loss of content or message. Like other works by this author, once you get it, you get it.

The state of the world from a pragmatic perspective -
Tom Friedman always has a practical point of view on things and this book is no exception. I found this book to be more forward-looking compared to The World Is Flat, which is more journalistic in its reporting of events that led to the world's economic state today. This book is more about steps the United States can take to ensure American dominance in the 21st Century.

I highly recommend this book to anyone that just thinks of environmental rights advocates as "treehuggers". Tom Friedman goes into extensive detail about how a green movement can have economic and national security benefits as well, such as reducing poverty and increasing productivity in regions of poor countries that do not have a stable electric grid and bankrupting petrodictators, who benefit from and are able to remain in power due to oil revenues.

May 17, 2010 -
Thomas Friedman makes his point and continues to be loquacious to an excessive degree. The author gives many examples but fails to mention how our system can bring about the Green Revolution.

"Addicted to Oil"??? -
I have to admit, after picking up this book I was pretty excited to dive right into and learn a new outlook on the worlds energy and climate problem. BUT, after the first few chapters of idealist thinking and a few contradictory statements, this book was a disappointment. His urgency for better environmental actions is well noted and is correct, but his scope on a few things seems to be incorrect. His campaign that "America is addicted to oil" is purely out of scope. To think about an average Americans oil consumption, it is directly proportionate to their lifestyle, commuting habits, and to the number of hours they still have their oil lamps on at night. We don't crave oil and dream about it at night, we use it because it's the cheapest and most easily accessible commodity available that fits our lifestyle. Once it stops being cheap and readily available, we will adapt and use a different resource. That doesn't sound like an addiction, it sounds like common sense. Using "Addicted" is just another way to instill fear in people to buy hybrids and solar panels for their houses. So I guess if he wants to use "Addicted" he should write about a 12-step program to get us out of addiction and back to our sober ways of living earth-conscience.
Overall, I would not waste your time reading this book and would recommend "SuperFreakonomics" by Steven Levitt.
Onwards,
Bryan

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