The RegenNarration 96. Regeneration: Ending the climate crisis in one generation, with global visionary Paul Hawken
This feels like a pivotal moment. Four years ago, legendary environmentalist, activist, entrepreneur and author, Paul Hawken, compiled the best-selling book Drawdown, a comprehensive plan for reversing global warming. That book changed the world in many ways. And his new one, the sequel to Drawdown, is creating another big wave. It’s called Regeneration: Ending the climate crisis in one generation, and just one week out, it’s already #6 in the New York Times best-seller list.
Regeneration is billed as the first book to describe the burgeoning regeneration movement spreading rapidly around the world. And like Drawdown, it doesn’t end at the book. The not-for-profit Regeneration organisation is developing an extraordinary set of online guides and resources, teaching materials and media productions to assist our efforts, whoever and wherever we are.
If Drawdown was what-could-be-done, Regeneration is how-to-get-it-done. And that’s in a context where we’re still going backwards in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, global warming, our health, and other critical crises. And, most people in the world remain disengaged.
So how do we change this? How do we, as this one generation, engage the majority of humanity and fundamentally shift our collective course?
More on Drawdown:
Drawdown was a NYT bestseller, is published in 14 languages, has been used by heads of state, is part of the curriculum on every grade level from 4th grade to MIT graduate school, and is placed in a New Zealand hotel chain alongside the Gideon Bible.
Drawdown named the goal. Before the book was published, the goal and word were not mentioned in climate literature. The term drawdown is now in generic use, employed and referred to thousands of times a day, and the book’s conclusions became the “bible” for over a trillion dollars of funds managed by numerous financial institutions.
This conversation was recorded online with Anthony in the Kimberley and Paul at home in California on 30 September 2021 (Australian time), with thanks to the Derby Media Aboriginal Corporation.
Title slide: Regeneration book cover.
Music:
The System, by the Public Opinion Afro Orchestra.
Tune with the intro is by Jeremiah Johnson.
We Can Change the World (The Regeneration Song), by AY Young & Jonathan Russell of The Head & The Heart.
Find more:
A special extra to this episode, where we deep-dive into some of the key themes of Regeneration.
Regeneration, the not-for-profit organisation, inc. NEXUS & how to get hold of the book.
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