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Every book Paul Hawken recommended on podcasts
Paul Hawken appeared as a guest on The Rich Roll Podcast to converse about topics relating to carbon, consciousness, fungi, and climate change. During the conversation, Paul Hawken mentioned Merlin Sheldrake's book Entangled Life, describing it as a beautiful book about fungi while recounting a conversation he had with the author regarding the terminology used to describe fungal networks. Furthermore, Hawken discussed Henry David Thoreau's essay Civil Disobedience in the context of a story involving Mahatma Gandhi, touching upon historical acts of peaceful protest and resistance. In another episode of the same podcast, Hawken also mentioned David Wallace-Wells' book The Uninhabitable Earth while talking about dystopian books concerning climate change that he chose not to read at night. Across his podcast appearances, Hawken engaged with literature that spanned environmental science, historical political resistance, and ecological futures, weaving these texts into broader reflections on humanity's relationship with the natural world, social change, and the psychological weight of confronting global environmental crises through reading and public discourse.
Books recommended by Paul Hawken
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Entangled Life
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake is a popular science book exploring the mysterious and multifaceted kingdom of fungi and how they shape our world, minds, and futures.
Recommended“And so when Merlin Sheldrake who wrote Entangled Life, beautiful, beautiful book about fungi. Is it fungi? I keep I always say fungi fungi doesn't matter. Fungal um keep going. Sorry. Yeah. But remember anyway, he read the chapter for me and um and then he said, 'But I wouldn't call it queendom.'”
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Civil Disobedience
Discussed“And when he got arrested, he carried in this thing paper written by thorough called, we all know that one. Leaves of grass. No, not leaves of grass on Walden. No. Which one? On civil disobedience.”
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The Uninhabitable Earth
The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells is a stark non-fiction book that examines the catastrophic impacts of global warming and climate change.
Critiqued“and we get books uninhabitable earth you know and the end of ice”
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“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?'”
“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.”
“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”
“And when he got arrested, he carried in this thing paper written by thorough called, we all know that one. Leaves of grass.”
“Leaves of grass. No, not leaves of grass on Walden. No.”
“draw down was very much about carbon and sequestration you know bring it back home and stop emitting it okay and this is the way you do it and uh we can talk about that if you want regeneration”
“draw down was very much about carbon and sequestration you know bring it back home and stop emitting it okay and this is the way you do it and uh we can talk about that if you want regeneration”
“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”
“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.”
“Yeah, April 17 was the last book Drawdown and this one is coming out”
“In Drawdown one of my regrets about Drawdown is that we had educating girls as a solution, well solution.”
“That was another thing that Drawdown did inadvertently was his to rank all the solutions by impact.”
“Hey, when I did Drawdown, we talked about asparagosis tax performance, which is this type of seaweed that if fed in very small amounts”
“And that's why in the book, we have punch lists where we have a connection to the website, which says, hey, make a punches.”
“What it does is the last eight pages is a wormhole to the website.”
“It's four times as much carbon that's in the atmosphere.”