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How long does it take to read Drawdown?

the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming

Paul Hawken, Christopher Solimene

Drawdown by Paul Hawken, Christopher Solimene takes about 4 hours 33 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 4 hours 33 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2017. 248 pages, about 68,200 words.

10 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 7 hours 35 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 4 hours 33 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 51 minutes

The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

"In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. One hundred techniques and practices are described here--some are well known; some you may have never heard of. They range from clean energy to educating girls in lower-income countries to land use practices that pull carbon out of the air. The solutions exist, are economically viable, and communities throughout the world are currently enacting them with skill and determination. If deployed collectively on a global scale over the next thirty years, they represent a credible path forward, not just to slow the earth's warming but to reach drawdown, that point in time when greenhouse gases in the atmosphere peak and begin to decline. These measures promise cascading benefits to human health, security, prosperity, and well-being--giving us every reason to see this planetary crisis as an opportunity to create a just and livable world"

Subjects: inlibrary, Climate Change, Environment, Climate change mitigation, Prevention, Global warming

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