Paul Hawken’s (ed.) new book on the options for reversing global warming seeks to overcome and reorient the ‘game over’ feelings of hopelessness that sometimes set the tone of dialogue about humanity’s and the planet’s current situation.
Recognising a gap in the literature - there’s no plan - Hawken assembled a team to develop one, focusing on the most promising practices and technologies that could be employed to ‘reverse the buildup of atmospheric carbon within thirty years’.
There’s some marketing speak here. Clearly, there are a multitude of plans for mitigating climate change, but perhaps not a single one that incorporates all the little pieces. In the blurb on the website, the Drawdown team acknowledge as much: ‘All solutions modeled are already in place, well understood, analysed based on peer-reviewed science, and are expanding around the world.’
There has also been some criticism of the book in that it is not sufficiently detailed, or laid out in a project management sense, to call itself a plan at all. I'll come back with my verdict on that when I get to the end of it.
In the meantime, you can order the book yourself from the website, and here’s an interesting interview with Hawken about the project:
https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2017/06/06/paul-hawkens-plan-to-fix-the-climate-with-or-without-paris-pact/