System Green [review of Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America (Friedman, T.L.; 2008); 2008]

The author of this book on global energy systems is a foreign affairs columnist with the New York Times. This book deals with global systems and focuses on three themes the author says are pushing the world in what he calls the energy-climate era: global climate change; the emergence of new, globally connected middle classes in China, India, Russia, and elsewhere; and worldwide population growth. The book is recommended if you want to understand the workings of the worldwide energy system and how it interacts with population growth and change.