The Literary Journal

The book: Hot, Flat and Crowded, by Thomas Friedman. Here's the premise. The world is hot (global warming), flat (there is improved opportunity for greater numbers of people to do well, by virtue of a global economy and the Internet...) and crowded (the population is growing exponentially). In light of the premise, the message is to begin conserving our resources and changing the way we live and developing new "green" sources of energy. There are deniers of the global warming data and even more resistance to the concept that global warming is the result of human activity. The deniers tend to be conservatives, to the point that denial has even become a platform of the U.S. Republican party. Conservatives are hypocrites for denying global warming. They should be on the forefront of spreading the message that we need to conserve the non-renewable resources of our planet. The conservatives should be extolling the virtues of a conservative lifestyle that will herald in an era of reduced use of and reliance on energy.