Hot Flat And Crowded Summary
“Hot, Flat, and Crowded” by Thomas Friedman is a book that addresses all about our environment. It addresses in detail what goes on within our environment and what will happen in the future if we do not take care of it. Friedman, throughout his whole work successfully talks about how the environment will change and how it will affect the people who live in this environment. Throughout the whole book, he tells about different factors that happen in the environment in our country and different countries. Throughout his book, Friedman talks about how the environment will keep decreasing in the way it has been for many years. In the whole book what kept popping up was how the climate change is affecting different countries. The whole main basis
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A point in the book where he was detailed in how the environment is changing is in the chapter Can Red China Become Green China? Friedman states that “...if climate change remains unchecked, the yield of China's major crops (including wheat, rice, and corn) will drop by up to 37 percent in the second half of the century” (2008:350). This does not seem to bode well for China as they are growing by more and more people everyday. If the climate change were to effect them as much as it seems to, then China will slip up and not be able to provide for the people that reside within the country. This will cause billions of people to not be able to provide for their family. However it has been said that the Chinese government officials have been looking into how to keep the climate change from effecting to many people. “More than half of the city's public buildings have failed to obey powersaving rules setting air-conditioning at 26 degrees Celsius, according to local energy authorities” (Friedman, 2008). This was in the year 2007, when it was the hottest summer that China had ever seen. The Chinese government officials had good reason to limit what the public buildings could consume as far as energy, because using the air-conditioning does take up a lot of the energy that is in the country. This does effect how the climate can be, as
A point in the book where he was detailed in how the environment is changing is in the chapter Can Red China Become Green China? Friedman states that “...if climate change remains unchecked, the yield of China's major crops (including wheat, rice, and corn) will drop by up to 37 percent in the second half of the century” (2008:350). This does not seem to bode well for China as they are growing by more and more people everyday. If the climate change were to effect them as much as it seems to, then China will slip up and not be able to provide for the people that reside within the country. This will cause billions of people to not be able to provide for their family. However it has been said that the Chinese government officials have been looking into how to keep the climate change from effecting to many people. “More than half of the city's public buildings have failed to obey powersaving rules setting air-conditioning at 26 degrees Celsius, according to local energy authorities” (Friedman, 2008). This was in the year 2007, when it was the hottest summer that China had ever seen. The Chinese government officials had good reason to limit what the public buildings could consume as far as energy, because using the air-conditioning does take up a lot of the energy that is in the country. This does effect how the climate can be, as