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Drawdown book review6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Then, like a breath of air restored through carbon-sequestration, comes the book Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming.Įdited by Paul Hawken, environmentalist, entrepreneur and writer, Drawdown outlines 100 solutions to global warming that have the “greatest potential to reduce emissions or sequester carbon from the atmosphere.” Each solution is ranked based on the amount of greenhouse gas it can reduce or remove between 20. ![]() It’s enough to drive you to stuff your face with bluefin tuna at every opportunity, wash it down with bottled water sucked out of a drought-stricken watershed, jet around the planet to visit fragile ecosystems before they vanish (think of the selfies!) and buy some Exxon stock. And just today a chunk of the Antarctic Peninsula broke away, creating one of the largest icebergs ever recorded. A 2012 report from the World Bank describes the world as “ barreling down a path to heat up by 4 degrees at the end of the century.” Celsius. We’re well over 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (scientists consider 350 ppm safe). These measures promise cascading benefits to human health, security, prosperity, and well-being-giving us every reason to see this planetary crisis as an opportunity to create a just and livable world.The bad news on the environment is as unrelenting as a California wildfire. If deployed collectively on a global scale over the next thirty years, they represent a credible path forward, not just to slow the earth’s warming but to reach drawdown, that point in time when greenhouse gases in the atmosphere peak and begin to decline. The solutions exist, are economically viable, and communities throughout the world are currently enacting them with skill and determination. They range from clean energy to educating girls in lower-income countries to land use practices that pull carbon out of the air. One hundred techniques and practices are described here-some are well known some you may have never heard of. ![]() The public is hungry for this kind of practical wisdom.” -David Roberts, Vox “This is the ideal environmental sciences textbook-only it is too interesting and inspiring to be called a textbook.” -Peter Kareiva, Director of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. There remains no single, comprehensive, reliable compendium of carbon-reduction solutions across sectors. Reported by-effects include increased determination and a sense of grounded hope.” -Per Espen Stoknes, Author, What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming “There’s been no real way for ordinary people to get an understanding of what they can do and what impact it can have. Reading it is an effective inoculation against the widespread perception of doom that humanity cannot and will not solve the climate crisis. The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world “At this point in time, the Drawdown book is exactly what is needed a credible, conservative solution-by-solution narrative that we can do it.To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]()
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