I hope we have started to give voice to such a vision, grounded in research and math. That’s powerful because it reinforces the positive story about who we are and what we can do, but also it makes it hard to reject the work.Īt a very macro level, the climate movement has been hindered by not having a compelling, credible, positive vision, but instead focusing on the lingering question as to whether we will avoid catastrophe. Our aim was to gather and codify the collective wisdom of humanity. Commonly used terms such as CO2, decarbonisation, the ‘war on carbon’ and the ‘fight against global warming.’ The war metaphor is a hard one because all of us are tied up in fossil fuels in some way, which makes us both the enemy and the good guy! The goal, as we see it, is to try and come into balance with the planet where we live, so language was an important thing for us broadly. We were deliberate with language to make the book accessible and to move away from the jargon and the military language used in the climate space.
The language was quite an important aspect of writing this book. I often imagined an 18-year-old university student taking a first environmental course and asked myself, ‘is this going to get you excited as well as help you to understand?’ĥ. When I came on board, my focus was on bringing the narrative content of the book to life, collaborating closely with Paul. We had a huge group of 60 or so research fellows who worked on the project at one time or another, doing literature reviews and quantitative modeling.
Can you tell us more about the writing process? It’s a useful term because it calls on both avoiding emissions, but also using the power of photosynthesis to bring carbon back home to earth in plants, soil, and biomass.ĥ. We felt it was important to put forward a goal that was not about slowing, stopping or even stabilising emissions, but rather one that was about heading towards that tipping point and then back towards conditions that are most conducive to life. We use it specifically to refer to the point in time at which atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations peak and then begin to decline on a year over year basis.
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To view the full list of solutions visit: Some of those have more of a story feel to them. And then 20 of them are ‘Coming Attractions’ that tend to focus on a person or a team or a company that is working on one nascent solution or another. The book covers 80 solutions that already exist, are proven and scaling in places around the world, and we have substantial data on those. By introducing history or culture, we make each one accessible in a way that evokes wonder and curiosity. They explain the nuts and bolts of how the solutions work, what the advantages and potential challenges are, while also bringing out the humanness in them. It’s a collection of 100 short essays that bring each of these solutions to life. I was excited to tell the other side of the story - that people are not just terrible, greedy, lazy destroyers of our planet.” “In writing the book with Paul, I thought a lot about the story we tell about ourselves and the planet, and how that story impacts our action or inaction. Having worked in the climate space and succumbed to the doom and gloom of it all many years prior, I felt Paul’s lens of ‘what’s possible’ was an incredibly important one and that the climate movement needed it. How did you start working with Drawdown’s editor Paul Hawken and what was your inspiration?
Working with 200 of the brightest scientists and research fellows worldwide, the Drawdown team came up with 100 solutions, all of which are hands on practices that are commonly available, economically viable and scientifically valid, and will have regenerative outcomes for the planet.ġ. Offshore Wind Turbines, Solar Farms, and Biomass that could become the energy providers of the future while a Plant Rich Diet, Reduced Food Waste and Silvopasture could turn the largest emitters of carbon dioxide into carbon sinks.įor each solution, its history, the carbon impact it provides, the relative cost and savings, the path to adoption, and how it works is provided. We were fortunate to interview the book’s Senior Writer Katharine Wilkinson, whose background in climate research, sustainability, and thought leadership brings this game changing book to life.įlipping through the pages you’ll be inspired and reassured by the ingenuity of humanity in the face of the most significant global crisis to date.ĭiscover buildings clad in Smart Glass, Green Roofs and Heat Pumps that curb the energy requirements of cities. Senior writer Katharine Wilkinson brings Drawdown to life by threading the human story and the historical landscape throughout each of the 100 solutions.
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