Is Our Food System a Solution to Climate Change? with Paul Hawken
The Dr. Hyman Show
Dr. Mark Hyman
4.5 • 9.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2018
⏱️ 91 minutes
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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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