‘Hot, Flat, And Crowded’
Posted by: Jock Gill
A great interview on NPR with Thom Friedman. Highly recommended.
Fresh Air from WHYY, September 8, 2008
Thomas Friedman is a man bent on revolution. In his new book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded, the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist writes about the need for a green revolution — and calls upon Americans to lead the charge.
Friedman argues that the U.S. can help revive itself at home and abroad by finding solutions to global warming.
Friedman is a foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times. His other books include From Beirut to Jerusalem and The World is Flat.
Note: Thanks to Kate Thompson for bringing this to my attention.
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And watch this Dave Letterman rant — set off by his guest Thom Friedman talking about his new book:
http://www.ecorazzi.com/2008/09/09/david-letterman-on-global-warming-were-dead-meat/
via: huffingtonpost.com
Great! I read about his great work ‘The Lexus and the Olive Tree’, really stimulating and gripping. It’s true that the Lexus stands for material civilization and consumption cultures while the olive tree, ‘organic social groups’ on behalf of the traditional agricultural world. But through this two-facet lens of the ‘western’ center what cannot be figured out is the intriguing yet convoluted internal conflicts in globalization, which was then curtailed for “westernized” and ‘americanized’.