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The foremost consideration in the assessments made for the Drawdown Project, explains co-founder Paul Hawken, was how much carbon could be kept out of the atmosphere by wider adoption of each strategy. In most cases, the 30-year impact could be measured in gigatons.
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At the same time, the Drawdown Fellows also calculated the economic costs and benefits of each change, and found that most would more than pay for themselves.
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