Scan barcode
A review by sandini
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken
4.0
Damn this book was long, in an exhaustive, action-oriented, and hard numbers kind of way.
I've been searching for a good book on what I, personally, can do to help reverse global warming. What I was looking for in this book was a specific, prescriptive plan to combat climate change, as in, "first do this... next this..." but really, it was more free wheeling than that and really just gave me a bunch of ideas on what to do. I realized I'll have to do a lot more research to really implement most of these ideas and make my own plan. So, minus 1 star for overselling this so-called "plan", but overall a fantastic book that I'd like to own.
All in all, an action oriented book that skims the surface of what is possible at a macro level for solar, wind, geothermal, and other new and interesting new sources of power, and at a micro level, in terms of electric vehicles, gardens, drip irrigation and inter-cropping.
---
Mostly unrelated to book, but I had to get it off my chest:
With regards to current events, Hawken did not directly comment on whether recycling actually does anything in the US, but he does give helpful status updates on other nations where recycling of paper goods is an astounding 95% (S Korea), so it seems like it can be done well. I'll have to look into that more- that's an annoying story that's floating around social media.
Also, I'm so excited the USA will be rejoining the Paris Agreement (international agreement to prevent global warming to no more than 2C greater than pre-industrial levels) after he-who-shall-not-be-named decided to reneg for reasons unclear. Anyway, after this shitstorm of a year, I'm also really excited we get John Kerry as our U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate. It's so nice to have some people in office who give a shit about whether we all kill ourselves and make life on earth infinitely less pleasant from pollution. /rant
I've been searching for a good book on what I, personally, can do to help reverse global warming. What I was looking for in this book was a specific, prescriptive plan to combat climate change, as in, "first do this... next this..." but really, it was more free wheeling than that and really just gave me a bunch of ideas on what to do. I realized I'll have to do a lot more research to really implement most of these ideas and make my own plan. So, minus 1 star for overselling this so-called "plan", but overall a fantastic book that I'd like to own.
All in all, an action oriented book that skims the surface of what is possible at a macro level for solar, wind, geothermal, and other new and interesting new sources of power, and at a micro level, in terms of electric vehicles, gardens, drip irrigation and inter-cropping.
---
Mostly unrelated to book, but I had to get it off my chest:
With regards to current events, Hawken did not directly comment on whether recycling actually does anything in the US, but he does give helpful status updates on other nations where recycling of paper goods is an astounding 95% (S Korea), so it seems like it can be done well. I'll have to look into that more- that's an annoying story that's floating around social media.
Also, I'm so excited the USA will be rejoining the Paris Agreement (international agreement to prevent global warming to no more than 2C greater than pre-industrial levels) after he-who-shall-not-be-named decided to reneg for reasons unclear. Anyway, after this shitstorm of a year, I'm also really excited we get John Kerry as our U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate. It's so nice to have some people in office who give a shit about whether we all kill ourselves and make life on earth infinitely less pleasant from pollution. /rant