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Paul hawken drawdown1/15/2024 And I thought, I’m going to judge it by one question: Is it helpful? That’s all. But I thought about what I was doing, and I realized that what am I going to do for the rest of my life. I didn’t know how it changed and where it was going to go and what was going to happen, but I had-was clueless. And when 9/11 happened, I don’t know what happ-We all remember where we were, and after that, all’s I knew was that the world had completely changed. I mean, Bill talked about too, but 2001 was a strange year – 9/11 happened. Its origin goes back to 2001, and it goes back to the same things that Valarie talked about. But this is really about Drawdown, the book and the project. If you come to the workshop this afternoon, lots of pretty pictures and things like that, so-And I’m also going to talk about my next book, which I won’t this morning. And so I’ll return to this in a minute later, but I mean, our languaging and how we talk to each other and about this is crucial and is critical. They believe that the climatic stability of the Holocene period is going to persist for hundreds of years into the future, and there’s not one single shred of science to support that view. And it’s interesting because it’s the other way around. And that question or that dynamic was created by Frank Luntz and Karl Rove, and that-their intention was to make the people who were literate and understand the threat that climate change poses were believers, and that they were the rational people who don’t believe it. It’s like we all should have raised our hand because science is not a belief system. Actually it’s not meant to be a trick question, but it is. The other is: How many don’t believe in climate science or there’s anthropogenic climate science? Just raise your hand. I want to know what you know, because we obviously don’t, and that would be great. Did anybody not raise their hand? I want to see. The first question is: How many of you – just raise your hand – how many of you are freaked out about the climate crisis and climate change? Just raise your hand. So we’ll show the video and then Paul will come on. So thank you, Paul, for dreaming up these parallel worlds of possibility that can liberate this world and help us see ourselves so clearly. Paul’s intention is to actually change the climate in a much better way, that’s conducive to life. He’s written a string of incredibly influential, really transformative books, from Ecology of Commerce and Natural Capitalism with Amory and Hunter Lovins about the transformation of business, which is an agenda yet to fulfill, but the map is there to of course Blessed Unrest, which chronicles Bioneers world, the rise of social movements and civil society all over the world to become the biggest movement in the history of the world, helped us to see ourselves more clearly and then most recently, of course, he’s done Project Drawdown, which to me is the absolute North Star of goals and possibilities, and exactly where we need to be heading here. Paul first spoke here in ’94, and he doesn’t just see around corners, he somehow manages to find the wormholes in the space-time continuum that open up parallel worlds of possibility, that somehow soon start to migrate here onto Earth One. So Paul Hawken truly needs very little introduction, but I’m going to make this minimalist because Paul asked that we show a short three-minute video that we constructed from a talk he gave here 10 or 15 years ago that is more visionary than ever. Introduction by Kenny Ausubel, Bioneers CEO and founder KENNY AUSUBEL: Read the full verbatim transcript of this keynote talk below. Find more information about Project Drawdown at. To learn more about Paul Hawken, visit his website. His many bestselling books include such massively influential texts as: The Next Economy The Ecology of Commerce Blessed Unrest and most recently, Drawdown, The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming. Paul Hawken, one of the most important environmental authors, activists, thinkers and entrepreneurs of our era, has dedicated his life to sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. For over 30 years, Paul has been at the forefront of transformative solutions for people and planet. Doing what’s right for the climate means doing the right thing across the board and will also create abundant, meaningful jobs and a vibrant green economy. The true power of Drawdown is its holistic nature. All the practices and technologies documented in Paul’s best-selling Drawdown book are already commonly available, economically viable, and scientifically valid. The visionary goal of Project Drawdown, founded by Paul Hawken, is to actually reverse global warming by drawing carbon out of the atmosphere back down to pre-industrial levels. This keynote talk was given at the 2019 Bioneers Conference.
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