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You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today, my guest is Paul Hawkin.

Paul Hawkin is an environmentalist, an entrepreneur, author, and an activist who has dedicated his life to environmental sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment.

Paul Hawkin is the founder of Project Drawdown, a nonprofit dedicated to researching when and how global warming can be reversed.

He's written eight books, including five national bestsellers, including the book Drawdown, the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming.

And a new book, which is the subject of this conversation, regeneration, ending the climate crisis in one generation.

Paul's work is an inspiration to action. He writes, our job is not to fret and cling to threads of hope. Our role is to solve problems, blame, demonization of others, and hand-bringing waste our time and energy.

Paul calls us team earth to get to work. Here's a very catalytic and inspiring conversation with Paul Hawkin.

Paul, we're celebrating here your new book, Regeneration, ending the climate crisis in one generation.

And this is a sequel to your 2017 book Drawdown, the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming.

And I'm excited to talk to you as somebody who wants to understand more from someone like you who's right at the center of all of this research, all of this thinking, all of this writing.

You know, I've heard from people, I deeply respect, you know, Tammy, get real, we're actually past the point where humans can make enough of an impact for the climate crisis, not to basically kill humanity.

We're past that point, get real. And I've heard from other people, you know, this is the critical decade. This is the critical decade where it's not game over in your language, it's game on.

In the previous podcast, we recorded on drawdown, those were the words you used, game on. So where do you feel we are right now here in 2021 in terms of the timeline and the climate crisis?

Well, good question. It's lovely to be with you. And yes, it's easy to be a doomsayer about where we are because the science is incredible.

The rated change surpasses earlier predictions that is what's happening with warming up, are the guys belting temperature changes, fires, droughts, etc.

All this is happening much quicker than was predicted by the IPCC. And so it'd be very easy then to project ahead further and say therefore, you know, it came over.

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