Burning oil, gas and coal – craftsman Fossils The fuel, made of compressed remains of old plants and plankton – released carbon in the Earth’s atmosphere, where it is heat and changes the climate. This process caused great destruction and loss of life, and it will continue to do so. As a result, carbon has become seen as something.Fight“” “FightingAnd “picking”.
Paul Hawkin, the author of the new book “Carbon: The Book of Life“He argues that the climate movement is considering its work, and correspondence is all wrong.” Those who call a contaminated carbon may want to put their word processor, “Hokin writes.
Hawkin believed that carbon treatment as something to be treated, evening, and pumping in geological formations, not only reflects the same mentality that caused climate change in the first place, but also people alienated from the living world. There is no “climate crisis”, as it argues, but there is a crisis of human thinking and behavior that surprises the soil, wipes the entire species, and changing the weather faster than people can adapt. “From a planet’s point of view, he writes in” carbon “,” The atmosphere of warming is a response, amendment, and education. “
The book records a shift in his thinking. In 2017, Hawkin was publishedPlaces: The most comprehensive plan proposed ever to reflect global warming“A book that occupies 100 climate solutions through the amount of what can reduce carbon emissions, from Leakage to Food waste. Non -profitable Withdraw the projectAnd what he launched, continues to implement these types of reforms all over the world. But now, Hawken abandons direct standards to focus on what he sees as a deeper cultural problem. He said: “The living world is a complex interactive system and does not lend it to simple solutions.”
The new book is developing carbon as a flow – a cycle that moves through the atmosphere, oceans and soil, with the element that is absorbed by developing plants and exhalation in every animal breath. Hawken’s book is a lesson in what is sometimes called “Unlearning”, or abandoning old assumptions, such as the idea that nature is something that must be fixed or controlled. The book explores ways to fix a broken relationship with the natural world, inspired by original cultures and new scientific discoveries. Hawkin is surprised by the amount of what remains known about the carbon, which is called “the most mysterious element ever”.
The poetic language of the book provides a flagrant contradiction with Military conditions Climate defenders tend to use carbon. Hawkin argues that typical metaphors are not only inaccurate – how exactly fight an element? -But also providing fuel for right -wing accounts that were clarified to the carbon. Last week, E & E News stated that the Trump administration is planning a federal report Proof that the warming world will be a good thing, and it is an excuse to weaken climate regulations.
“Carbon dioxide is not a evil gas,” said David Legagis, a former Trump official, in a recent video clip released by the Hartland Institute, a conservative research tank. “Instead, it is a gas useful for life on the ground. It will increase the temperatures slightly, and the warmer temperatures are certainly better than cold temperatures.”
Hawken wants a widespread shift in how people talk about the natural world, though, not just re -thinking about the metaphors of climate movement. It refers to how financial institutions It is increasingly indicating nature as a commodity. In January, Black Rock, the world’s largest asset manager, “Natural Capital” announced the priority of investment. In February, Goldman Sachs “Biological Diversity Bunders” Converting ecosystems into investment products. The terminology used in scientific reports and global climate conferences also creates a sense of separation that fills the living organisms to which it refers. Hawken describes the word “biological diversity” as “a term without blood” and “carbon neutrality” as “the impossibility of a silly biophysical”.
“We have been numb science, confused, paralyzed due to predictions, confusion about the measures that must be taken, tension and we are scrambling to take care of our family, or simply the poor, fatigue, and fatigue,” Hawkin wrote. “Most humanity does not talk about climate change because we do not know what to say.”
Even easy terms such as “nature” is suspicious, from the point of view of Hawkin: the concept seems only to celebrate the separation of humans and the rest of the world. It indicates that Chicham for Achuar in Amazon does not have a word about nature, and does not do other original languages. “Such words will not only be needed if Achuar suffers from nature as self -distinct,” he writes. On the contrary, it describes the English language as a “without root” language, as terms of many places that are struggling to teach this type of profound, mutual relationships that were born from living in one place and sponsoring them for several generations.
Hawkin hopes to fix this separation by helping people discover carbon flow in their daily lives and feel a feeling of reporting it. Carbon It turns into a curved scientific discoveries of the mind about the type of miracle that carbon makes it possible. Bees, with their coastal brains, seem to be able to rely and learn to monitor and feel pain and pleasure, and even learn about their own knowledge. The Judar Factory senses the world around it with more than 14 million roots and root hair, a network described by the nerve scientist in the plant as a kind of brain. Hawken’s book is a reminder that carbon – despite all the problems caused by a lot of it in the air – is actually a gift.
goal Carbon The map of a plan to save the land is not, but to revive a sense of the relationship with it.
Where Hokken lives in California, his community recently restored salmon, which destroyed a concrete barrier under the fish prevention bridge on their final journey until spawning. Hawkin said: “The essence of this is care, kindness, communication, mercy and generosity.” “This is where the renewal begins.”
This article was originally appeared in Barrier in https://grist.org/language/paul-hawken-book-climate-govement-carbon/.
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