Paul Hawken & Andy Revkin: Carbon Gift (10/18/13)

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🗓️ 23 October 2013

⏱️ 36 minutes

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“Humans are problem-solving animals – you would never know it reading the press,” said environmentalist Paul Hawken. He and NY Times writer Andy Revkin discussed how attitudes have changed in the 25 years since NASA scientist James Hansen testified before Congress about human-caused climate change. “Right now, the attitude is that climate change is happening to us...instead of the idea that actually climate change is instead happening for us,” Hawken said. Some problems stem from lack of education, while others can be attributed to policies and mindsets. “It’s our social systems that impede progress,” Revkin said. “The technologies are there, to some extent, but how do you facilitate them?” The speakers presented a hopeful outlook in the face of rising seas and extreme weather. “Carbon is the element that holds hands and collaborates in nature,” Hawken said. “We’re going to have to be like carbon and hold hands and collaborate.” Paul Hawken, Author and Entrepreneur Andy Revkin, Writer, The New York Times Dot Earth Blog This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club of California on October 18, 2013 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:08.0	25 years ago, Congress held the first hearings on human-caused climate change.
1:13.8	Since then, scientific knowledge, public understanding, and government policy have all advanced,
1:19.4	but not far or fast enough to ward off the impacts of rising carbon pollution.
1:24.6	Over the next hour, we will talk about the climate story with our live
1:27.9	audience at the Commonwealth Club of California. We're pleased to be joined by two veteran
1:32.1	writers who've been covering this story. Paul Hawken is an entrepreneur and author. His most
1:36.8	recent book is Blessed Unrest, How the largest social movement in history is restoring grace,
1:42.5	justice, and beauty to the world.
1:44.8	Andy Revkin writes the Dot Earth blog for the New York Times as author of several books,
1:49.2	including The North Pole was Here, Puzzles and Perils at the top of the world.
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