Hot, Flat and Completely Making Sense.

Yeah, so about posting every day during NaBloMo… Well, it didn't exactly work as you can see.

Anyways…

I finished Thomas L. Friedman's new book Hot, Flat and Crowded. The structure is similar to his last book The World is Flat: Friedman networks with many different people and weaves those interviews into a convincing argument. He wrote an enlightening chapter on petrodictators. If this chapter alone doesn't convince you why we need to be energy independence, I don't know what will. He provides a very clear picture of the situation in America, China, and rest of the world. Just like TWIF, Friedman dwells at times (making you want to gouge your eye out with a carbon neutral knife). All in all, it was a great book to read. Just before I started this book, I enlisted in the army: T.Boone's army and am on a climate change kick right now. Coming out of this book, I believe that we need a New Deal-esq goverment project for energey independence. It will not only give the middle finger to OPEC and create thousands of jobs to replace those that are lost daily, but will also bring back some of the jobs lost in other industries, as people will once again have money to spend on clothes, food, entertainment, etc.