Joseph Nye,Jr. reviewed HOT,FLAT,AND CROWDED

Book by Thomas Friedman. Why we need a Green Revolution. Farrar Straus Giroux. 438 pp. $27.95 Joseph S. Nye,Jr. is University Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard. Such book is surely an intellectual challenge to all thinkers!
"We became more dependent on China to finance our deficit and Saudi Arabia to fill our gas tanks. Americans wound up paying even more for gas in 2008, but we enabled OPEC to be the tax collector instead of using the revenues ourselves."
"China uses coal, a particulrly CO2 intensive fuel, for 70% of its commercial energy supply, while coat accounts for a third of America's total energy. China builds more than one new coal-fired power plant each week. Coal is cheap and widely available in China, which is important as the country scrambles for energy resources to keep its many energy-intensive industries running.
A report from the International Energy Agency urged a cooperative approach to helping China and India become more energy efficient. In othe words, to promote our own security, the United States and other rich countries may have to forge a partnership with China and others to develop a full range of creative ideas, technologies and policies to prevent dangerous climate change. This requires a reframing of what we think of as natiolnal security and a more inclusive strategy than we have had in the past. If we finally move in that direction, Friedman will deserve some of the credit. My comment: I have similar thoughts about US-China cooperation and collaboration in my past blogs. This is an endorsement of my rationale. America at the Switch. Published by Book World,The Washington Post,September 7-13, 2008 Francis Shieh a.k.a. Xie Shihao. Sept. 6, 2008