The Modern Day Bible

Mr. Mehrotra over at http://eyeknow.wordpress.com/ is a scholar and a true gentleman. He has exquisite taste in fine literature and he provides this great review on Thomas Friedman's latest masterpiece, 'Hot, Flat and Crowded'. I'm about halfway through this book myself and it is a truly something that everyone interested in the economic and energy future of the world should read. A modern day bible. Friedman's perspective is insipiring and makes me realize that this is what youngsters should be reading in school to become global citizens.

Here are Mr. Mehrotra's words of wisdom:
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Thomas Friedman needs to be in US President-elects Obama’s private counsel, because this book is manifesto what America and the world needs to do to get out this crisis were now in. This crisis were in is by Friedmans account to be hot flat and crowded, that is global warming, the rise of the middle class all over the world and rapid population growth which is making our planet dangerously unstable. All these trends are interwoven and will determine the quality of life this century. For example, he argues the convergence of hot, flat and crowded is tightening energy supplies, intensifying extinction of plants and animals, deepening energy poverty, making petrodictators stronger and accelerating climate change. Basically YOU NEED TO READ THIS BOOK. If you have read his previous book, The World Is Flat, then you will know this guy is on the cutting edge of what is happening in our world right now.

He believes were entering the Energy-Climate era, and what is happening right now is akin to the internet revolution of the mid-90’s. He gives examples of what has led to this point and solutions of what could possibly be done to get us out of this mess. As you can tell from this post it just totally engrossed me, and that is because when you read this book he discusses where we are right now in history what the future can be if the right decisions are made. A big booyah to Friedman for writing this."