{"id":374,"date":"2017-06-19T03:27:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T03:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/?p=374"},"modified":"2017-06-19T03:27:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T03:27:17","slug":"game-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/2017\/06\/19\/game-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Game on!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulhawken.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paul Hawken\u2019s<\/a> (ed.) new book on the options for reversing global warming\u00a0seeks to overcome and reorient the \u2018game over\u2019 feelings of hopelessness that sometimes set the tone of dialogue about humanity\u2019s and the planet\u2019s current situation.<\/p>\n<p>Recognising a gap in the literature - there\u2019s no plan - Hawken assembled a team to develop one, focusing on the most promising practices and technologies that could be employed to \u2018reverse the buildup of atmospheric carbon within thirty years\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s 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: \u2018All solutions modeled are already in place, well understood, analysed based on peer-reviewed science, and are expanding around the world.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, you can order the book yourself from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drawdown.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>, and here\u2019s an interesting interview with Hawken about the project:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/forum\/2017\/06\/06\/paul-hawkens-plan-to-fix-the-climate-with-or-without-paris-pact\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Hawken\u2019s (ed.) new book on the options for reversing global warming\u00a0seeks to overcome and reorient the \u2018game over\u2019 feelings of hopelessness that sometimes set the tone of dialogue about humanity\u2019s and the planet\u2019s current situation. Recognising a gap in the literature - there\u2019s no plan - Hawken assembled a team to develop one, focusing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/2017\/06\/19\/game-on\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Game on!\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}