Paul Hawken: “Game on” for global warming
By Dawn Stover | May 4, 2017
In this interview, environmentalist, entrepreneur, and author Paul Hawken discusses Project Drawdown, “the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming.” Hawken, who leads the project and edited the just-published book Drawdown, explains why his team felt it necessary to create a master list of the most substantive current solutions to global warming, and how they went about their extensive research. Surprisingly, many of the top solutions they identified and modeled do not involve energy systems, but instead focus on changes in food, land use, and other categories. Hawken speaks about global warming in positive terms, describing it as useful “feedback” that enables humans to take responsibility for what they have done – and to devote themselves to fixing the problem rather than to laying blame. Read this free-access interview in the May/June digital journal.
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Issue: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Volume 73 Issue 3
Keywords: Bill McKibben, Donald Trump, climate change, drawdown, energy, food, global warming, solutions
Topics: Climate Change, Interviews
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Dawn Stover
Dawn Stover is a contributing editor at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. She began her career at Harper's magazine and worked... Read More
