Thomas Friedman is a three time Pulitzer Prize winner and a foreign affairs editorial writer for the New York Times. He is working on several tough conflicts and try to find out compromises regarding the the Israelo-palestinian conflict for instance. His works are focused on the modernization of the Arabic world, on the environment and on the globalization since a progressive and central point of view on the American political specter. He is one of the biggest influencer of the American public opinion. He is famous for being able to translate in easy words complex political-economic ideas.
Thomas Friedman has written this book in 2008. He passionately argues within 17 chapters for immediate action to prevent a global climatic apocalypse. He directly aims the American audience in order to make the things evolve. The main subject of this book is the global warming and his first cause of it the fossil fueled based American economy.
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He explains the three major challenges that the world. The three of them are in the title. The world is becoming flat, he means that the world he becoming more and more globalized, and the job outsourcing and the competition with new developed countries are one of the problems the US economy is facing. The second problem is the crowned aspect of the world. There are more and more middle-class people who ask for more material goods. The production of these goods is made of non-renewable resources that tend to enrich Middle-East oil owner countries and therefore threaten the national security. The last problem is the one he focuses the more on, the world is becoming hot. Friedman believes that solving this axe is the possible solution for many problems United States are