Summary Of Hot Flat And Crowd

The Book Hot Flat and Crowded written by Thomas Friedman is a book that shows many problems both with the United States and the world today. Each of these problems has the potential to forever change the world. In fact, some of them have already made significant changes. Hot describes the climate change or global warming that the world is experiencing. Flat explains the globalization of marketplaces that is occurring. Crowded depicts the rapid population growth that is occurring which is causing a growing competition for resources. Friedman claims that these three facets are converging in a way that is making our planet dangerously unstable. The book is broken into five separate sections which all have a few subsections. The first major section is “Where We Are.” This first subsection in this section is “Where Birds Don’t Fly.” Friedman claims that America has gotten distracted from the war on terror, and consequentially, America has been losing its reputation as a world power. Friedman outlines this belief in the following quote from page
The first is found in chapter ten. I believe that Friedman’s plan could result in negative effects. There is a fundamental reason for why government regulates energy prices. This is because utility/energy companies are almost always a monopoly. It is pertinent that these prices are regulated because monopolies control the entire market share which means that they could set the price as high as they wanted in order to generate large profits. In addition, de-monopolizing these companies would result in wasted resources since companies would place more telephone polls next to each other because they would be competing for customers in the same area. The second thing with which I disagree is that a carbon tax could prove to be beneficial. A carbon tax during this recovery from the worst recession in decades could greatly drive down economic