"Hot, Flat and Crowded" is repetitive, long-winded

For the most part, I enjoy when Thomas Friedman is a guest on political roundtables and other such shows . This is why I picked up his book, Hot Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America. He is so redundant! His definitions of "hot" (the earth is warming due to climate change), "flat" (the global middle class is expanding) and "crowded" (there's lots of us) are continuously thrown back at the reader as if we haven't already read them in each previous chapter. Tell me something you haven't already told me, Tom! Full of anecdotes (maybe too many anecdotes) some of them illustrate well the environmental challenges we face. I found bits of the book fascinating but all in all this book could easily be shortened to a great article not 500 pages of the same message.