Implementing these policies will take incredible investments, coordination between governments, and massive behavior changes on the part of the individual. I do worry that a book like this gives a false sense of optimism. It’s a symbiotic ecosystem of recommendations – a permaculture, not a monoculture, of ideas. One solution’s weaknesses are balanced by the strengths of another. The strength of this framework stems from interdependence. There are reasons to act on these beyond saving our environment.
In addition to reducing sequestering carbon, the majority offer financial savings, increase industrial yields or efficiency, create jobs, and result in healthier people.
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The book goes into far more depth about the logic behind the rankings, how each solution works, how much carbon it saves, various pros and cons, and the required financial investment.)Ī key plus for many of these solutions is they offer benefits beyond carbon sequestration. (I’ve included a one-sentence summary of each solution in this review. The author and research team synthesized primary research from thousands of studies and developed a ranked list of the most important actions the globe can take to combat climate change.
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This book is a framework - not only how to stop global warming, but how to reduce carbon levels in the face of population growth and quality of life increases. 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.
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