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Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken
gerbilreads's review against another edition
5.0
Fantastic, positive and practical information and advice for how we can save this damn planet and maybe make life somewhat better for us all. Inspiring stuff.
ronb's review against another edition
4.0
Great and comprensible book on what we can do for climate change and carbon sequestration. Reads sometimes like a textbook. Provides non emotional, highly rational arguments often absent in "doomsday" related climate change literature
cstack's review against another edition
5.0
It seems like the more you know about climate change, the more depressed you get. This book is an exception. It's jam-packed with information that actually made me excited about the future. 100 ideas. 80 have estimated costs, savings and net effect on greenhouse gasses. 20 are so radical they didn't bother quantifying the effects. It has a lot of ideas you never would have thought of. The idea with the greatest impact on greenhouse gasses? Improving the way we dispose of refrigerators and air conditioners.
anuwolf's review against another edition
5.0
This book is more uplifting than the regular doom and gloom climate change books because it provides solutions. It gives hope. We have knowledge, we have technology, and we just need the will to change our habits in order to make a difference, on an individual level and on a societal level. It is our collective responsibility to ensure the Earth is livable and has the same beauty for future generations.
lisalark's review against another edition
4.0
Excellent collection (with index! and pictures!) of steps we can take right now, today, to stop climate change. See the associated website if you'd like to check out some steps online. These range from big to small, expensive to cheap, and have ratings to that effect. Most things have a bunch of cobenefits too. We can do this.
tommlachance's review against another edition
3.0
3/5 as a reading experience. I do not think this book is really meant to be read front to back. The individual ideas comprising the book are almost all interesting in their own right and worthy of attention. Cows and trees? I'm in. Cows on the beach? As long as they're eating the jellyfish. More cows and more trees? Yes please thank you very much.
Kinda reminds me of the Pokemon guides you used to get at the Scholastic book fairs. You didn't read them front to back, you skim, you find the good Pokemon, and you come back to those obsessively every couple of days. You are not wasting your time with fucking kakuna when you could be looking at some gengar or reading about the size of a lapras shell. The main differences being that nothing in Drawdown is as bad as kakuna, and coming back to this book every once in a while is probably not a complete waste of one's time.
Kinda reminds me of the Pokemon guides you used to get at the Scholastic book fairs. You didn't read them front to back, you skim, you find the good Pokemon, and you come back to those obsessively every couple of days. You are not wasting your time with fucking kakuna when you could be looking at some gengar or reading about the size of a lapras shell. The main differences being that nothing in Drawdown is as bad as kakuna, and coming back to this book every once in a while is probably not a complete waste of one's time.
thejuliette's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
4.0
It's nice to see a book for a change that has a positive narrative on how to battle against climate change.
kisaly's review against another edition
5.0
This isn't really a "read cover-to-cover" type of book, but more of a "dip your toe in, learn a little, and find a some hope for the state of humanity" type of book. Lots of smart and exciting content.