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Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

Paul Hawken: Carbon is the flow of life

Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

Kaméa Chayne

Earth Sciences, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science

4.8694 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

What is there to question about the dominant framing of “climate crisis”? What does it mean to understand carbon not just as an element but as the flow of life? And how do we begin to recalibrate our senses of delusion or reality in a world where often up is portrayed is down and down as up?

In this conversation, we are joined by Paul Hawken, a world renowned climate expert who invites us to move beyond the fixation on carbon in a reductive, objectified equation of emissions and sequestration, and to look to the roots of why the planet and its communities are experiencing distress to begin with.

How do we counter the climate movement’s co-optation by technological, capitalist interests?

We invite you to…


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0:00.0

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0:13.7

considerations to influence our curiosities or our abilities to question whatever it is that we want to question.

0:22.3

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0:26.8

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0:30.7

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0:37.3

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0:40.4

donation at greendreamer.com slash support. It really means a lot to have you here, and we're so

0:47.6

grateful for whatever form or level of support that you're able to share with us.

0:54.1

So the problem with the term climate crisis is that... or level of support that you're able to share with us?

1:01.2

So the problem with the term climate crisis is that it puts it out there somewhere,

1:04.5

up there, as if it's happening to us.

1:07.9

And some we're just victims or, you know,

1:09.8

and I'm not saying that people are not being affected,

1:17.4

but they are being affected, of course. But I'm just saying, but as a mental construct, we are using the mindset to cause the problem. And the problem is caused by humanity objectifying the living world

1:23.4

and selling it to the highest bidder, including people, by the way, not just emmels and forests

1:29.6

and minerals.

1:33.9

You're listening to Green Dreamer, and I'm your host, Kamea Shane.

1:39.0

Today I'm sharing my latest conversation with Paul Hawken, the founder of Project Drawdown and Project

1:45.9

Regeneration, and the author of nine books, including Blessed Unrest, Drawdown, Regeneration,

1:53.0

and his latest, Carbon, the Book of Life. I remember first learning about Paul's work when I was

1:59.4

just starting to learn about climate and environmental issues

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