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Climate Change

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Drawdown: The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming edited by Paul Hawken is a book with one hundred solutions that can put a full stop to global warming. This book is published in 2017 by “An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC” in New York, US. This book is 240 pages long with lots of images as well as data tables that elaborate the content and helps the reader understand the concept better. The author talks about the common fear that everyone have in today’s world, climate change, and this book illustrates about 100 different methods and procedures that we can all follow to stop climate change from getting worse. All the methods have daring and accurate solutions that are designed by many international …show more content…

According to the study of Stanford University which estimated about “950 to 1.1 billion acres of deserted farmland around the world” (Hawken 41) has been abandoned because of land degradation and “ninety-nine percent of that abandoned occurred in the past century” (Hawken 41). This gives a perfect explanation to the massive burden on affected workers that climate change challenges is placing, the low rates of pay, rising levels of poverty and poor working conditions in agricultural sector. “Restoration can mean the return of native vegetation, the establishment of tree plantation, or introduction of regenerative farming methods” (Hawken 41) and by converting these degradation lands to recovering agriculture, 14.1 gigatons of carbon could be reduces, additional 9.5 billion ton of food could be produced, as well as, it could provide, on an investment of $72 billion, financial return of $1.3 trillion.
Tourism and industrial recycling, being other major sectors, are also one of the industries that are growing fast globally. The global gross domestic product (GDP) for tourism industry was considered for 10.3 per cent. Tourism is not just a fast-growing industry, but jobs in most economies are created by tourism industry since it demands human-resource. Approximately, “230 million jobs are created in tourism industry and one and a half indirect jobs are created by one direct

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