num_pages: 256
description: 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. One hundred techniques and practices are described heresome 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. 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 earths warming but to reach drawdown that point in time when greenhouse gases in the atmosphere peak and begin to decline. These measures promise cascading benefits to human health security prosperity and well-beinggiving us every reason to see this planetary crisis as an opportunity to create a just and livable world.
language: English
title: Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
publisher: Penguin Books