- New York Times bestseller - The 100 Most substantive solutions to Reverse Global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world At this point in time, the Drawdown book is exactly what is needed; a credible, conservative solution-by-solution narrative that we can do it.
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. --Peter Kareiva, Director of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA 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. --David Roberts, Vox This is the ideal environmental sciences textbook--only it is too interesting and inspiring to be called a textbook.
The public is hungry for this kind of practical wisdom. . . .
At least until now.
There remains no single, comprehensive, reliable compendium of carbon-reduction solutions across sectors. --Per Espen Stoknes, Author, What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming There\'s been no real way for ordinary people to get an understanding of what they can do and what impact it can have.
Reported by-effects include increased determination and a sense of grounded hope.
Reading it is an effective inoculation against the widespread perception of doom that humanity cannot and will not solve the climate crisis. - New York Times bestseller - The 100 Most substantive solutions to Reverse Global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world At this point in time, the Drawdown book is exactly what is needed; a credible, conservative solution-by-solution narrative that we can do it
