Earth's Hidden Wisdom: Paul Hawken On Reframing Carbon, Consciousness & Why Hope Lies Within Nature's Intelligence

The chances of carbon being created in the solar system, in the universe, is so incalculably small as to be impossible. Life is something that is far more extraordinary than even we could possibly know or possibly understand. And so what do you make of that? How? Paul Hawken is a legend.

He's one of the great elder statesman of environmentalism, as well as an author, a lecturer, and entrepreneur who, for decades, has distinguished himself as one of the truest leading voices calling for the regeneration of nature and humanity. But Paul isn't just an activist when it comes to planetary stewardship, he is a precious resource for the many solutions to the existential threat of climate change we currently face. Paul's latest book and the subject for today's conversation is entitled Carbon.

It's been called a spiritual encyclopedia of the Earth, and it's his most expansive, humble and hopeful text to date, one which posits that our greatest solutions for planetary healing reside in a deeper appreciation for the complexities of the natural world. I was a teenager and I lived in Nevada City, and you dealt with fire where I lived up in the Sierras and where it burned. You look at this wasteland. It's all black, the trees, you know, everything is just gone.

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