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Furthermore, I was equally struck by the weight given to the need to support better access to modem, voluntary family planning, women’s and girls’ education and reproductive health care throughout the world, which is not only intrinsically the right thing to do, but a potentially significant contribution to reducing our collective climate footprint

we begin to live in a different world. We take 100 percent responsibility and stop blaming others. We see global warming not as an inevitability but as an invitation to build, innovate, and effect change, a pathway that awakens creativity, compassion, and genius. This is not a liberal agenda, nor is it a conservative one. This is the human agenda.

Climate changes because it always has and will, and variations of climate produce everything from seasons to evolution. The goal is to come into alignment with the impact we are having on climate by addressing the human causes of global warming and bringing carbon back home.

When we burn fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas), manufacture cement, plow rich soils, and destroy forests, we release

renewable energy, forest protection, better management of soil and marine conservation, to name but a few.

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has completed the most significant scientific study in the history of humankind, and continues to refine the science, expand the research, and extend our grasp of one of the most complex systems imaginable. However, there is, as yet, no road map that goes beyond slowing or stopping emissions

“Drawdown’s” focus on reversing, rather than simply reducing, climate change is a compelling and urgent narrative that surely needs to be widely adopted? I also much appreciate its focus on regenerative and restorative development, as well as its references to the circular economy. These approaches are particularly close to my heart.

Turbines can harvest electricity while farmers harvest alfalfa and corn. What’s more, it takes one year or less to build a wind farm, quickly producing energy and a return on investment.

What we measure and model in Drawdown is how to begin the reduction of greenhouse gases in order to reverse global warming. —Paul Hawken

If you are traveling down the wrong road, you are still on the wrong road if you slow down. The only goal that makes sense for humanity is to reverse global warming, and if parents, scientists, young people, leaders, and we citizens do not name the goal, there is little chance it will be achieved.