Hot, Flat, and Crowded

Hot, Flat, and Crowded

2008 hardcover version cover
Author	Thomas Friedman
Language	English
Subject	Global warming, clean energy
Genre	Non-fiction
Publisher	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date	September 8, 2008
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print, e-book
Pages	448 pp.
ISBN	978-0312428921
Preceded by	The World Is Flat
Followed by	That Used To Be Us

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—And How It Can Renew America is a book by New York Times Foreign Affairs columnist Thomas Friedman, proposing that the solutions to global warming and the best method to regain the United States' economic and political stature in the world are to embrace the clean energy and green technology industries. The title derives from the convergence of Hot (global warming), Flat (globalization, as discussed in Friedman's book The World Is Flat) and Crowded (population growth).

The book was released on September 8, 2008, by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.^[1] The audiobook was released simultaneously by Macmillan Audio. The cover art is taken from Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights.

A second edition of the book was published in November 2009.^{[citation needed]}