Book · 2025 · Science
Carbon
The Book of Life
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Paul's latest book and the subject for today's conversation is entitled carbon which posits that our greatest solutions for planetary healing reside in a deeper appreciation for the complexities of the natural world.
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“Paul's latest book and the subject for today's conversation is entitled carbon which posits that our greatest solutions for planetary healing reside in a deeper appreciation for the complexities of the natural world.”
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“And this latest work, Carbon, is your most expansive perspective. It's almost like it's a more enlightened call to action to say in a very kind of poetic and encouraging and hopeful tone to say like the solutions cannot all be uh extracted from new technology or from these processes about like how to you know kind of sequester carbon.”
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“Um, but but the book really begins with like how we talk about carbon itself. Like we think we know what it is. Carbon's bad in the atmosphere. We need to remove it, but like it's also the building block of life.”
Discussed
“You have this beautiful line in the book, uh, speaking to the poetry of of all of this. Carbon is presented as the narrator of life, the courier of existence and the lattice that permeates cultures and organisms.”
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“Like the last two books were these big books that were almost, you know, as much manuals as they were books. But this is like a book book. This is a literary poetic, you know, kind of adventure that you take the reader on.”
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Own book
“And what I'm trying to suggest and in the book and so forth is ways to look at plants, at creatures, at butterflies, you know, at my celia, at other people, other cultures in a way that promotes a sense of wonder, a sense of awe, a sense of respect, a sense of, 'Oh my gosh, who knew?'”
Own book
“And so I do give a few anecdotes of that in the book about that happened for me. But that's it's available to everyone regardless of age or tenure or job or culture or nothing.”
Own book
“So we have to think about things that are more you know ple you know like down to earth I guess you know and of ways of seeing the world was the butterfly or I give an example of the book about a scientist who for what curiosity whatever reason wanted to know how many roots were on a seed”
Own book
“So carbon the book of life is really about in a sense how do we connect ourselves to the living world in such a way that actually um inspires us and and the people around us”
Own book
“And so in the book I talk about, you know, dark earth for sure. And but soil is not to be seen as a medium just because we can take a bag or something and pour it into a pot and grow something.”