The major points Thomas L. Friedman makes to support his theory
Our planet is our home, it overcomes a kind of crisis, mankind caused global warming, it should counteract the environmental devastation, and renew the connection with the good earth. “Destroying a tropical rainforest and other species-rich ecosystems for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner” (Speerstra 204). These words can truly be alleged as incredible opinions.
Contemporary examples from newspapers, magazines, that are related to the material covered in the book “Hot, Flat, and Crowded”
In previous times, the answer about the issue of successive actions of states was simple: every state should grant security against outer assault, encourage the prosperity of its inhabitants and guard the national values. Political authorities shadowed an extensively realistic scenario, laying their nationally applied concern forward the spacious global concerns. Such a position presupposed competition with others countries for high status, strength, and position.
Designing many-sided institutions that could apply global issues was accessory as were believed after national safety was made hard by receiving martial power and political influence. To date most political leaders have common intentions, interdictory towering costs can be brought by their search for the self-advantage of the nation. A large number of issues they deal with cannot be resolved in a one-sided manner (Kegley 398).
The price of electricity has an essential influence on the place of new informational centers. The electricity price is different around the world. Thomas Friedman thinks that the confluence of IT and energy techniques corresponds to all the systems of power in the home, being connected to information systems devoured into one integrated system for buying, producing, keeping, using, selling clean electronics. “Friedman sees the need to have information technology and energy technology, IT and ET, merged into a single system that he calls an Energy Internet. He envisions how professionals with IT skills be needed to build integral components of this clean-energy Web” (Lamb 281).
“Any organization of producers aimed at reducing supply is a producers’ cartel. Any organization aimed at reducing demand is a consumer’s cartel. A consumer’s cartel brings precisely the changes we seek. By definition, it reduces consumption, as fixing the climate requires” (Stoft 245).OPEC (Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries) is a cartel whose purpose is to measure the rich and poor world. By the way, under the most favorable conditions employ insufficiently their spoils. The main aim of an oil consumers’ trust would serve to finish the measuring and protect the climate (Stoft 246).
The book “Hot, Flat, and Crowded” was written by Thomas L. Friedman globalization-wise man. The book tells about the consummate hurricane the world experiences, with peak oil, global warming, and an unrestrained worldwide population that (despite the sideshow known as the “baby bust”) before it levels off around 2050 is sure to increase to more than nine billion. So, as is mentioned in the book we’re increasingly stretching the planet’s facilities while getting ready to increase the population by 2.5 billion world citizens.
Friedman’s injunction is for steadiness and green energy overturn, and to establish his ideas in the native country he travels all over the world, having talks with Chief Executive Officers and heads of states. His compatibly showy instances are collected from W Sudan to the United Arab Emirates. If this pleasing book has a defect, it is never strictly spelling out how we increase incompatible techniques to accept from oil. We need global agreement and international investment, but the sphere of technologies is questionable: solar or wind energy, the energy which uses water or heat in the interior of the earth (Motavalli 6).
To date, there exists competition not only between workers between the country but an international competition. Thomas Friedman pictured the influence of the adulatory global economy (Croston 21). “In a world that is getting hot, flat, and crowded, the task of creating the tools, systems, energy sources, and ethics that will allow the planet to grow in cleaner more sustainable ways is going to be the biggest challenge of our lifetime” (Fiksel 357).
Thomas Friedman explains enclosing the Earth Commons, he indicates that this is not just making pure energy, but the population of the world immersed into ecosystems (Grabill 2). The book itself is about the idea government entailed in the United States’ changing of the image, it depicts debate on this issue. Friedman offers a solution to the problem by shaping the market differently using the kinds of public policy that is pushed for, containing motives for power companies to purchase energy from purer sources while cooperating with corporations and customers to utilize less electrical energy using complex technologies of switching the light (Magee 130).
Energy security and climate change are now the objects of the open confrontation. The dependence on oil is a burning issue in both problems, and several other important problems are to be solved. In case there are no well-considered actions, the situation will not be changed soon, and will not be able to resist the climatic problems. Both problems, climate change, and energy security are global, and settling them needs a global organization (Stoft 245).
Works Cited
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Fiksel, Joseph. Design for Environment, Second Edition: A Guide to Sustainable Product Development. McGraw Hill Professional, 2009.
Grabill, Joe. Green Kingdom Come! Jesus and a Sustainable Earth Community. Wheatmark, Inc., 2009.
Kegley, W. Charles, and Gregory A. Raymond. The Global Future: A Brief Introduction to World Politics. Cengage Learning, 2009.
Lamb, John. The Greening of IT: How Companies Can Make a Difference for the Environment. Pearson Education, 2009.
Magee, David. Jeff Immelt and the New GE Way: Innovation, Transformation and Winning in the 21st Century. McGraw Hill Professional, 2009.
Motavalli, Jim. “Nine Billion and Counting?” E, 19, November-December 2008.
Speerstra, Karen. The Green Devotional: Active Prayers for a Healthy Planet. Conari, 2010.
Stoft, Steven. Carbonomics: how to fix the climate and charge it to OPEC. Steven Stoft, 2008.