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The Dr. Hyman Show

Is Our Food System a Solution to Climate Change? with Paul Hawken

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Nutrition, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.59.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2018

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

The news about climate change seems bleak and hopeless, but my guest on this week’s episode of The Doctor’s Farmacy is here to give us hope. Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, author, and activist who has dedicated his life to environmental sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. He is one of the environmental movement’s leading voices, and a pioneering architect of corporate reform with respect to ecological practices. His work includes founding successful, ecologically conscious businesses, writing about the impacts of commerce on living systems, and consulting with heads of state and CEOs on economic development, industrial ecology, and environmental policy. Paul is Executive Director of Project Drawdown, a non-profit dedicated to researching when and how global warming can be reversed. He is on a mission to present real, already existing solutions to reverse global warming.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Most of us know that climate change is a real problem and what we need are real solutions.

0:04.7

My guest on today's episode of the Doctors' Pharmacy has spent his time studying fascinating

0:09.6

solutions that are designed to reverse the damaging effects of global warming.

0:14.0

Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, an entrepreneur, author, and activist to his dedicated

0:18.5

his life to environmental sustainability in changing the relationship between business and environment.

0:24.4

On today's episode, we talk about real solutions to our most pressing environmental issues,

0:29.1

including global warming. You may or may not be surprised to learn the food and the way we consume it,

0:34.7

produce it, grow it, is a major cause of global warming and is the number one solution collectively

0:41.2

to climate change. Drawdown is that point in time when the concentration of greenhouse gases in

0:46.3

the atmosphere begins to decline on a year-to-year basis. And Paul's book, Drawdown, the most

0:51.9

comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming is truly one of the most impactful books

0:56.9

I've ever read. I'm so excited to share this extended episode of The Doctors' Pharmacy with you.

1:06.7

Welcome to The Doctors' Pharmacy. I'm Dr. Mark Heim and that's pharmacy F-A-R-M-A-C-Y,

1:11.6

a place for conversations that matter and today's conversation really matters because our guest

1:15.6

is Paul Hawken, one of the leading environmentalists and who's going to help us learn about climate

1:20.3

change, not from the bad point of view of how it sucks and it's all going to kill us, but how to fix

1:24.8

it, which is something that people really don't talk about. And he's got the street cred to prove it.

1:28.5

He's started out in Boston in 1966 with the first natural food store where they had whole grains

1:34.9

in bulk and seeds where they had cold pressed wells the first place ever sold vegetables. It was the

1:39.9

first kind of whole foods in a way. And you went on to do much bigger work as an environmentalist,

1:45.5

as an entrepreneur, as an author, an activist, and you've dedicated your life to environmental

1:50.6

sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. And your

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