Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
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Summary
<P>The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world. <P>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. <P>One hundred techniques and practices are described here—some are well known; some you may have never heard of. They range from clean energy to educating girls in lower-income countries to land use practices that pull carbon out of the air. <P>The solutions exist, are economically viable, and communities throughout the world are currently enacting them with skill and determination. 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. <P>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. <P><b>A New York Times Bestseller</b>