Hot, Flat, and CrowdedWhy we need a green revolution-And how it can renew America

- Thomas L. Friedman-Release 2.0

Published in 2009

Chu Thuy Duong (AP Bio)

Author

• An internationally renowned author,

reporter & columnist

• 3 Pulitzer Prizes for his work with the

New York Times

• Foreign affairs, including global trade,

the Middle East, and environmental

issues

“Avoid the unmanageable, manage the unavoidable”

I. When the market and Mother Nature hit the wall- Dishonest accounting - Mispricing of risk- Privatizing of gains - Socializing of lossII. Where we are- Petrodictatorship & Petrodollars- Code Green & REEFIGDCPEERPFPCA < TCOBCOG - Sustainability!!III. How we move forward- Energy –Climate EraIII. ChinaIV. America

Renewable Energy Ecosystem For Innovating, Generating and Deploying Clean Power, Energy Efficiency, Resource Productivity, Family Planning, Conservation, Adaptation < True Cost Of Burning Coal, Oil, and Gas

Connection to AP Biology

Loss of biodiversity

The Baijil (river dolphin) represented a GENUS, not a

species

“ One species is now going extinct every 20 minutes”

(181)

“Half of the world’s tropical and temperate forests are now gone… Half the wetlands and a third of the mangroves are gone… 90% of the large predator fish are gone… 20% of the corals are gone… Species are disappearing at rates about 1000 times faster than normal” (82)

Climate change

- Definition (155)- What causes it?

Changes in the earth’s orbit

Burning of fossil fuels, cultivation of rice & livestock,

deforestation

Large volcanic eruptions

Nature, massive releases of greenhouse gases from

beneath the surface

Renewable energyTypes

& working mechanism Pro- Cons-

Solar photovoltaic energy( Sunlight energy)

Clean, steadily cheaper

Battery to store solar-generated electricity

Solar thermal electricity(Mirrors to concentrate sun’s rays to heat a fluid to drive an electric generator)

No need for battery for storageClean, reliable

Expensive

Wind power Clean, cheap Need wind, battery for storage

Geothermal power(steam generated by nature & volcanic rocks)

Clean, reliable Not cheap

Nuclear power Reliable, cleanNot cheap or abundant; nuclear waste?

Connection to Biology

“Stratigraphy”

Information obtained from an ice core:

• Past temperature: isotonic composition of H2O molecule

• Past atmospheric composition: bubbles of old atmospheric air

• Net accumulation

• Dustiness of atmosphere• Vegetation changes• Volcanic history• Anthropogenic emissions• Entrapped microorganisms

• Page 157• Layers are identified from measured

variations in ice composition and impurity content

• The hand auger, the shallow drill, the deep drill

• Dating by annual layer counting

Ice core drilling

Connection to my life

• Reached 6 billions• “Additional people…

disproportionate negative impacts”

• Slowing the rate of population growth, especially in agrarian economies !!

Education, 2 –child policy (or 1)

40°C. NO electricity or water. And that is in the city!

• “[The right of every person to have access to energy] is often overlooked by very smart people, who are dedicated to solving the problems of development” (195)

• 1.4 billion people are left behind !! • Electricity and water shortage every summer. How about

people in rural areas?• Human potential & adaptation?

Highly recommended!

• About current issues (dependency on oil, population growth…)

• Common sense in depth • The economy, politics, environment

interdependence & the need for sustainability• Hypothetical situations what it is like to live in a

“green” future• Statistics, specialists…• Relaxing narrative voice

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