Paul Hawken - Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation

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Names: Hawken, Paul.

Title: Regeneration : ending the climate crisis in one generation / Paul Hawken, author.

Description: First. | New York : Penguin Books, 2021.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021009872 (print) | LCCN 2021009873 (ebook) | ISBN 9780143136972 (paperback) | ISBN 9780525508496 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Global warming. | Climatic changes.

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STAFF

PROJECT DIRECTOR, AUTHOR: Paul Hawken

CHIEF OF STAFF: Connor Akio Jordan

DESIGNER: Janet Mumford

SENIOR WRITER: Courtney White

RESEARCH ANALYTICS: Saseen Najjar

DATA INTEGRITY: Devon Burger

SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION: Jonathan Hawken

WEBSITE: Chad Upham

SOCIAL MEDIA: Jasmine Scalesciani

COPY EDITOR: Will Palmer

COPY EDITOR: Jane Cavolina

RESEARCHER/SCHOLARS

Elise Zufall

Elwin Lim

Gabriela Maia Leslie

Gabrielle M. J. Tan

Hanna Malzenski

Jaxon Z. Jacobs

Jordan French

Kavya Gopal

Lia Bear Kim-Woodward

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CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

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ESSAYISTS

Carl Safina

Charles Massy

Ellen Dorsey

Isabella Tree

Jane Goodall

Jonathan Safran Foer

Leah Penniman

Lyla June Johnston

Mary Reynolds

Mimi Casteel

Nemonte Nenquimo

Richard Powers

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Chip Conley

Jack Kornfield

Julia Jackson

Konda Mason

Lyla June Johnston

Maisa Arias

Mark Rampolla

Melinda Kramer

Rachel Hodgdon

Steve McCormick

Tara Meehan

WITH GRATITUDE TO OUR FUNDERS, DONORS, AND SUPPORTERS

Grounded.org

Aileen Getty

Jacobs Family Foundation

Chip Conley

Mark and Maura Rampolla

Natalie Orfalea Foundation

Wallace Global Fund

Fred Moon

Claude and Noelle Poncelet

Dr. Bronners

Bill and Lynne Twist

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Tara Meehan

Russell and Suki Munsell

Jack Kornfield

Jasmine Scalesciani

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Konda Mason

Lyla June Johnston

Maisa Arias

Melinda Kramer

Rachel Hodgdon

ADVISORS

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Bren Smith

Bill Twist

Brian Von Herzen

Carole Tomko

Charles Massy

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Cyril Kormos

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Danielle Nierenberg

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Durita Holm

Erik Snyder

Geert Noels

Gay Dillingham

Haley Mellin

Jason McLennan

Jeff Bridges

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Michael Burbank

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Roy Straver

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Susan Olesek

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Tara Meehan

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Contents

We accumulated thousands of references, citations, and sources in the process of researching and writing Regeneration. Although they are too numerous to be published in the book, they may be found at www.regeneration.org/references.

Foreword

Jane Goodall

When I was studying chimpanzees, I learned about the interconnectedness of all life in the rainforest. How every species of plant and animal has a role to play in the tapestry of life. When a species becomes extinct, a hole is made in that tapestry. When it becomes too torn and tattered, an entire ecosystem may collapse. The thing is, we too are part of the natural world. We depend on it for oxygen, food, water, clothingeverything. And it too has become torn and tattered.

What separates us most from our closest living relatives, the chimpanzeesand from all other animalsis the explosive development of our intellect. Animals are far more intelligent than was once thought, but no animal could come up with a theory of relativity or land on the moon. How bizarre that we, the most intellectual of all species, should be destroying our only home. There seems to have been a disconnect between our clever brains and the love and compassion that, poetically, we seat in the human heart. Only when head and heart work in harmony, I think, can we attain our true human potential.