Paul Hawken

But folks have brought back the forest and they brought it back through this incredible polyculture called Jardin Lacu that combines trees with perennial herbs.

annual vegetables and livestock in this integrated system that, you know, Paul Hawken ranked this top 10 in drought drawdown, these sort of climate solutions.

But you go to the Jaden Lakou, you're not only getting food and medicine, you sit five minutes there and get to see the pollinators.

like such a diversity of pollinators, the incredible fecund abundance, the colors of the flowers.

This is what it means to put life at the center of every action we take and every decision we make.

That's exactly how Paul Hawken defines regeneration in his book, Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation.

In this perspective then, ethics of care and regeneration could be synonyms for one another.

You can't have regeneration without ethics of care.

Instead, let's think about, let's think about the maze.

Let's think about how we can come together around issues we care about to slowly, uh, reshape everyday systems of living so that in the words of, of environmental author and entrepreneur Paul Hawken, it becomes as-- acting sustainably becomes as easy as falling off a log.

It becomes a natural kind of thing.

I mean, t- to make the point, um, before coming to Abu Dhabi, I lived in Singapore for 10 years.

We didn't need Netta, but everybody else did.

My friend Paul Hawken was doing a book called Drawdown, and he's a bestie, right? And he shows me the book, and I'm like, where is war in here? War is the greatest contributor to climate change.

We have to end war if you want to defend carbon.

And he said, well, there wasn't a study.

Because...

Abby walking into all the information and all the people in the anti-war movement who work on this issue.

I would say many of my friends in the anti-war movement have really gone deeper into this issue.

We've brought it to every gathering when we're all together.

Yeah

... it's so like why would we spend all of that money and time and energy, you know, robbing Peter to pay Paul when we can just, like, [chuckles] do this thing that we've known about for 30 years that works and now, oh, by the way, it's also very cheap.

Um, like I just, I don't know why we would do it.

Also, um, just from a pure like physics standpoint, we s- we don't have the space underground to store the volumes of CO2 that oil companies and, and various other folks are suggesting we could store s- solely as a way for them to continue making profits.

Mm-hmm.

And I was preparing to do a workshop, uh, well, a conference, uh, about 2020.

It was the year that COVID began, and Paul Hawken was gonna come and keynote.

It was gonna be a great two-day conference.

It plays a role in the environment.

And as Paul Hawken has said, you know, in his book Carbon, and also during conversation when I had him on this podcast, you know, we need to bring more carbon home.

Each of these animals plays a role in that.

Simply eliminating them and removing forest does exactly the opposite of that.

But wire it so it's a default system.

Wire it so you don't need a David Godfrey, a Rick Fidresi, a Paul Hawken, a Bill McDonough, a Che Wall in Australia, Christina Gamboa running the World GBC.

These are people climbing mountains.

And some of us did it without gear, without a base camp, without a map of now let's wire it so it just happens

Now that we have technology, we can all have.

Well, guess what? We have a lot of have-nots and they're growing.

Paul Hawken at College of Commerce 30 years ago.

Amory Lovins and Hunter Lovins and Paul, natural capitalism.