It is a scientifically robust yet simple (not simplistic) volume that both inspires hope and a sense of gravity at the scope of our environmental problems. Drawdown manages to do what so many before it have tried and failed at. It is the most technical book I have ever loved, but make no mistake, for all of its rich technicality, it is still highly accessible. I came across the book shortly after it was published in April 2017 and was instantly enamoured. The team created a list of the top 80 solutions for reducing and ultimately, drawing down greenhouse gas emissions. Drawdown is the result of thousands of hours of research, review, and debate. The Project has a research team of 70 diverse people from 22 countries, from scientists to public policy experts and an advisory board of 120 people spanning all sectors. As he writes, the “genesis of Project Drawdown was curiousity, not fear.” In 2013, he formally sought to fill the gap that existed in both academia and popular culture, writ large. Starting in the early, 2000s, Hawken, primarily an author and activist, started asking around about what it would take. It was initially borne of the realization, by Hawken, that there existed a wealth of research supporting anthropogenic climate change and predictions of its future impacts, but the same research didn’t exist about how to “arrest and reverse” climate change. Drawdown is the fruit of the collaboration of nearly 200 people across the globe. It is not shy in its enormous ambition and scope, nor should it be. The full name, subtitle and all is Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed To Reverse Global Warming. Of course, you can’t really reduce existing emissions if you keep pumping them out faster as David Keith has said “he first rule of holes, is you stop digging the hole before you try and fill it.” And therein lies the importance of drawing down existing emissions in addition to reducing current emissions patterns.ĭrawdown, edited by Paul Hawken, is my favourite book in the environmental category. So, even if we stopped all emissions today, we would still see the worsening effects on our climate due to these emissions. There’s a delay of about 10-15 years between when GHGs are first emitted and when they lead to warming effects. ![]() Legacy emissions or greenhouse gases (GHGs) already in the atmosphere are leading to current warming effects and the increasing number of extreme weather events. If we want to mitigate the worst effects of climate change we can’t rely on reductions to current emissions alone.
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