In the book, Tesla cars seem like an anomaly and their buyers still get a tax break (which I believe is no longer the case). It seems negligent not to mention destructive mining practices and battery disposal when talking about electric cars, for example.ĭrawdown was published in 2017, which doesn’t seem that long ago in some ways, but technology changes so quickly, parts already feel dated. I understand that we do need to do something to start addressing the challenges facing us and if we wait around waiting for perfect solutions, we’ll never change anything. Speaking of negatives, I feel that they were glossed over a bit. I would recommend buying a copy so that you can dip in and out as your interest and time allow rather than checking it out of the library and trying to finish it all before the due date. I probably had the attention span for about 50 of these solutions. The editor tried to keep each of the 100 solutions to just a few pages, giving a rough overview of the science, the benefits, and the negatives. The book got a bit too long and detailed for my level of interest. Even ideas that are more personal in scope, like electric cars or solar panels, would be implemented more quickly if we could have better tax breaks or if startup companies had better government subsidies. Most of them are only practical at the industrial or national scale. We know what needs to be done, we have feasible ideas for how to do it, but, at least in the States, we don’t have the political will or impetus to implement many of these solutions. Drawdown fit the bill but I still got a little depressed. I didn’t want something that was going to depress me so I decided to read a book focused on solutions rather than problems. I needed to read a book about climate change for the Nonfiction Reading Challenge hosted by Shelleyrae at Book’d Out. 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. 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. 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. "Paul Hawken on One Hundred Solutions to the Climate Crisis"."This book ranks the top 100 solutions to climate change. "How Much Do You Know About Solving Global Warming?". Drawdown: The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming. Drawdown (climate) – analysis designed to operationalize themes found in the book.which is sort of astonishing when you think about it." According to an article in Vox, "until 2017, there was no real way for ordinary people to get an understanding of what they can do and what impact it can have". Hawken stated, "the reason we can say 'the most comprehensive plan ever proposed' is that no one's ever proposed a plan. Īn April 2017 video on C-SPAN described the book as "a collection of policies, plans, and active programs to reduce carbon emissions outside of the purview of the federal government". For example, Kirkus Reviews called the book "an optimistic program for getting out of our current mess". Reception ĭrawdown has been a New York Times bestseller and has received favorable reviews. It was intended that the book be supplemented with an online database, Project Drawdown, which was to compile the numerous types of solutions. The Guardian notes that the author has had influence in corporate sustainability efforts and that companies such as Interface and Autodesk have backed the project. The book provides a list of 100 potential solutions and ranks them by the potential amount of greenhouse gases each could cut, with cost estimates and short descriptions. The book describes solutions arranged in order by broad categories: energy, food, women and girls, buildings and cities, land use, transport, materials, and "coming attractions". Other writers include Katharine Wilkinson, and the foreword was written by ( hardback edition) Tom Steyer and ( paperback) Prince Charles. Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming is a 2017 book created, written, and edited by Paul Hawken about climate change mitigation.
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