Regeneration is the new addition to this storied anthology. While originally recognized for his entrepreneurship and his commitment to the beneficial intersection between business and the environment, he became known for articulating this position in his best-selling books including The Next Economy, Growing a Business, The Ecology of Commerce, and more recently in 2017, Drawdown, The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming. Hawken is an internationally recognized environmentalist, entrepreneur, and author who has focused his efforts on the daunting impact that global warming has on the planet and all the life it supports. Paul Hawken’s latest book Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation is a powerful catalyst to action, and creates a call to move urgently, together, towards rapid change.

In spite of overwhelming agreement about global warming, that moment has yet to arrive. In times of crisis, a moment often arises when unity of purpose changes the course of events. We also hear voices who say that it is too late, that we need to be planning and pivoting in response to the inevitable and horrific changes to our planet rather than trying to avert the worst consequences. The voices of civil society, governments, business, the military, the financial world, and faith communities unite in expressing their deep concern, even if some have only recently (and sometimes begrudgingly) acknowledged it. Climate is no longer an issue that can be pushed down the road. Every day, one reads of new records set in any number of important markers: CO2 levels, heat and precipitation, loss of Arctic ice and permafrost, and increase in deforestation, to name just a few symptoms. 2021 is a watershed moment because that future is now upon us.

From the introduction of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in 1962, to the Paris Agreement of 2015, and even up to the present day, we have seen a steady stream of publications, conferences, and pacts committing to supporting the climate by reversing the direction of global warming with steps to be taken in the foreseeable future.

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