Drawdown

There are many opposing views on the state of the environment and where it is headed. As a layperson, I find it challenging to know what is true and what we can do about it.  However, I know there is very little I value more than clean air and water; all you have to do to prove this is visit Beijing sometime. There is a consensus that there is something larger at work here, and it is impacting everything --- Greenhouse gases. Drawdown by Paul Hawken is a living, breathing (eh, eh) document (rather than a book) that ambitiously looks at this very issue. It has been compiled by a broad spectrum of researchers using strict scientific methods and sensible financial modeling. The data compiled is open source, and therefore available to anyone to criticize the assumptions and potential solutions. What is clear is that we can't just stay neutral; it is imcumbant upon society to reduce Greenhouse gases, hence the Drawdown! This book is quite reasonable in its approach and makes the economic case for changing now, rather than merely the emotional one. Hopefully, we will look back at this time as one of the opportunities seized where we reversed the adverse effects of Greenhouse gases on our environment and made the world a better place for the children. I'd say that would be a zeitgeist we would be proud to call ours.