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Book review: Hot, flat and crowded
Below is a review that I wrote for the book Hot, flat and crowded: why the world needs a green revolution – and how we can renew our global future by Thomas Friedman.
In Hot, flat and crowded, Thomas L Friedman presents a compelling and provocative account of the challenges and opportunities facing humanity as the converging pressures of global warming, a widening middle class and rapid population growth begin to characterize the twenty-first century. Together these pressures could make the planet ‘dangerously unstable’ (5): ‘[L]ike the proverbial frog in the pail on the stove’ (48), human society has not completely grasped the scale of the problem, let alone developed a long-term survival plan.
