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For the first time ever, an international coalition of leading researchers, scientists and policymakers has come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. All of the techniques described here - some well-known, some you may have never heard of - are economically viable, and communities throughout the world are already enacting them. From revolutionizing how we produce and consume food to educating girls in lower-income countries, these are all solutions which, if deployed collectively on a global scale over the next thirty years, could not just slow the earth's warming, but reach drawdown- the point when greenhouse gases in the atmosphere peak and begin to decline. So what are we waiting for?

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Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Penguin Press; 1 edition (19 March 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0141988436
ISBN-13: 978-0141988436
Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 0.9 x 27.6 cm
Boxed-product Weight: 1 Kg
Average Customer Review: 4 customer reviews
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 79,000 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #353 in Environmental Economics (Books)
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A bold plan to beat back climate change based on solutions already within our grasp (Outside Magazine)

It will give you the best kind of hope, the kind that balances realism with radical vision . . . Drawdown stands out among the many recent climate books . . . This is a breakthrough book, and even its omissions are instructive. There really is a way forward, and these days, it's great to see this rather basic fact demonstrated with such astonishing focus and brio (The Nation)

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The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world.

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Sylvia McArthur

WOW!

4 September 2018

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I had no idea so very much is being done to solve our problems. Uplifting - despite the many governments that aren't taking action to limit climate change - there are groups and organisations and individuals taking their own action. Such an important book for people like me that care but feel relatively helpless. Particularly inspiring the forestry and agriculture sections. My only criticism - the type is slightly too small and is not printed in black (I think it is a shade of grey). The spacing between the lines is very good and helps to mitigate the type size. Other than that it's a breathtaking book.

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Kriddi

Fascinating book

23 June 2018

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If you want to be part of the solution to global warming, you need all the facts, and that's what this book gives you.
This book details each initiative into mitigating of carbon, and tells you the pros, cons, and overall benefit of each solution. The book gets to point very quickly on each issue and has interesting facts and background information, so you can understand the context of what exactly the world is dealing with. It also had really good pictures, so you can see what you are reading about.
After reading this book you get a real understanding of the conversion of energy, in all its forms.

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Cali

Brilliant - practical and forward looking

14 October 2018

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Clear suggestions for the future for follow-up

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Daniel

Loved it

10 July 2017

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A comprehensive book of all of the different ways we can impact climate change. The book helps us understand what we can do at a political, organizational, community and individual level to make a positive impact.

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Herb

Wonderful albeit incomplete

6 May 2017 - Published on Amazon.com

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Drawdown is long overdue. As with all of Hawken's writings it's well conceived, carefully researched and beautifully written. Thank goodness for this effort. Yet....

I looked in vain for the evidence that the remedies discussed will materially change the trajectory of projected temperature increases. How much below 2 C will we stabilize at with full implementation of these 100 remedies? According to the book even the most aggressive scenario they model only reduces CO2 by less than one gigaton (out of about 40 gigatons we spew each year) and that isn't until 2045. That means that we're still doomed.

I'm also puzzled that the book is called "The most comprehensive plan every proposed to reverse global warming". It's not a plan. It is a painstakingly researched compendium of currently used and and projected remedies. As such it's an essential contribution to our collective knowledge about climate change action. A plan however would have a set of goals, objectives, strategies, indicators and more. Perhaps Paul or others are now working to transform this solid beginning into a real plan. As a long time planner I'd be happy to help.

There is also little discussion about the single most important variable affecting whether we retain a livable planet - and that is time - or lack of it. Most all comprehensive analyses conclude that we're essentially out of time to avoid the most existentially dangerous consequences of climate chaos. It's wildly optimistic, and unsupported by the evidence, to suggest, as Drawdown does, that we can reverse climate change even if most of these remedies are not fully implemented until 2050.

Unless we almost fully decarbonize and drawdown in a decade or two, we're doomed to 5 -10 degrees F of warming by the end of the century. That level of warming will destabilize our politics, our economy, our food production, our social cohesion and our infrastructure to such an extreme degree that the organized productive work necessary to implement these remedies will be next to impossible to sustain.

And even were we by some near miracle to stabilize at the 2 C target we'll have a barely habitable planet, despite the conventional climate wisdom. There's little that is scientific about the 2 C target. It's a convenient political decision that puts the need for urgent action far into the future. We can see the severe consequences on our ice caps, our coral reefs and our weather with only 1 C warming today.

There's also the 'moral hazard' risk of the optimistic Drawdown message. We already have too much climate complacency. Yet reading Drawdown suggests that the market and human creativity is enough - or almost enough - to reverse climate change without mass mobilization and radical changes in how we invest, regulate, consume and organize our daily lives.

I write this critique with hesitancy given the enormous trust I have in Paul's good intentions and the admirable efforts of his 200 person working group. But we need to do so much more and much faster than what Drawdown describes. So I hope Paul will integrate that perspective into his continuing efforts at showing us the best path forward.

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Karynleafyseadragon

Great idea but two huge compromising omissions

10 June 2017 - Published on Amazon.com

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I have spent a couple of hours with this book, read some sections in-depth. I was crazy looking forward to reading it, and it does contain what I think may be new ideas for many people. I am thankful for that.

The book has two glaring deficits that make it a work that may ultimately harm our ability to move forward.

The first is a striking lack of solutions that are ocean-related. The ocean is the great temperature and atmospheric regulator of our planet. It requires abundant animal life in order to do much of the job of creating oxygen and sequestering carbon--for instance, the trophic cascade driven by whale populations down to plankton numbers. I am no expert, but I cannot imagine that the top 100 solutions do not include numerous actions that should be taken on behalf of ocean health. This is an area that has not received necessary attention and must.

This brings me to my second and most troubling point. Most of these solutions are tech based and economically informed. While they seem ambitious and somewhat impossible to attain, what drives much of the carbon emissions of our species is our consumptive way of life. This book assumes, based on solutions presented, that we just have to swap our current technologies with carbon reducing ones and we have some hope of solving things. That is the great lie!! A book with this much hype about solutions did not address overconsumption of manufactured items for its own sake. It does get wrapped into discussion of other topics, such as carpooling and recycling, but not explicitly. Imagine the impact of halving the purchaes we make. Or choosing to live without plastic and unnecessary packaging. We have spent hundreds of years getting into the situation we are in; this critical juncture requires an unswerving look at the nature of our addiction to possessing and extracting, which many of the posited solutions ignore.

Already looking for v.2 on this!!!

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Pat Thomas

Gives hope despite a Trump world for now

3 September 2017 - Published on Amazon.com

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I teach a climate change course and hoped this book would serve as a guide for students to get them out of the existential crisis which IS climate change I have ordered the book for all my students because it will do just that.
It takes some study to get how project drawdown works. It is great to get numbers for billion tons of CO2 reduced (GtCO2 which should be converted GtCeq) plus costs and savings for each of 80 solutions. The numbers are reasonable and it works like crowd sourcing...everybody can pick their solution and work from their own niche.
Some of my favorite parts were: 1) the reciprocity essay at the end and the "wood wide web", 2) the trashing of the cultural belief that cattle and trees don't mix, and 3) the dire need to build better batteries so renewables can get beyond 25 per cent of our energy mix.
Shortcomings of the book? The graphics and title page seemed a bit odd. And the C capture solution seemed weak, i.e., it is not enough to capture CO2 but we must make it a useful liquid or solid as in limestone bricks. The analysis re family planning and education of girls is SO important but the analysis of this is weak as it means controlling population if we are ever to have Limits to Growth as prophesied in 1972.
Bravo to Paul Hawjen and the team for getting us going in the right direction.

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