It is an agreed fact that it is time for a green revolution on a much larger scale. We don’t just need books that introduce us to the idea, but we do need books that can help us realize pragmatic facts and help us maneuver through.

Thomas Friedman’s Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - And How It Can Renew America is a book to really understand how and why to go about the green revolution. The book is a dialogue that analyzes how any country that addresses climate change can have a major control in the world economy. The book then particularly uses America as a case study and gives fantastic thoughts to ponder and create an action plan.

The book lists the below mentioned problems that are the real concerns:

• growing demand for rare resources
• wealth imbalance
• disruptive climate change
• the poverty-stricken classes unable to cope up
• accelerating loss of biodiversity

Friedman’s lens of looking at these issues are impeccable backed by his acumen which makes this book an essential need. Pulitzer Prize-winning author put across his argument on how America has lost its focus and how it must reestablish itself with a concrete dimension. The points made in the book are incisive and Friedman also pictures the very rituals that have led us to manipulate the natural world which also eventually led to the financial markets crash and the Great Recession. He further cements his argument by building a clear narrative that also gives us a glimpse of possibilities. The book discusses solutions that are hidden in energy opportunities, economic policies, and the role of technology.

His idea of geo-greenism stresses on not only global warming and climate catastrophes but also what we need to make America healthier, economically prosperous, more innovative, more productive, and more secure in the coming E.C.E.--the Energy-Climate Era. The book is a must read for anyone who is even slightly keen on understanding the climate dynamics and how developed countries can come together to make the needed difference. Simply put, the book is frank, fearless and dwells on possibilities that can be used before it all goes out of hand making it urgent and relevant.