Not the End of the World: Surprising facts, dangerous myths and hopeful solutions for our future on planet...

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Hannah Ritchie

Not the End of the World

Surprising facts, dangerous myths and hopeful solutions for our future on planet Earth

Hannah Ritchie

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Vintage
03 September 2024

Social forecasting, future studies; Global warming; Sustainability; Environmental science, engineering & technology; Self-sufficiency

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER which will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about climate change

'Truly essential' MARGARET ATWOOD 'Eye-opening and essential' BILL GATES 'I find it hard to express how much I love this book' RUTGER BREGMAN 'The climate and environmental crisis now has its Hans Rosling' DAVID WALLACE-WELLS 'An unmissable myth-busting book to save our planet - read it' TIM SPECTOR

Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our planet? This book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems -- and how we can solve them

We are bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won't be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, that we should reconsider having children.

But in this bold, radically hopeful book, data scientist Hannah Ritchie argues that if we zoom out, a very different picture emerges. The data shows we've made so much progress on these problems, and so fast, that we could be on track to achieve true sustainability for the first time in history.

Packed with the latest research, practical guidance and enlightening graphics, this book will make you rethink almost everything you've been told about the environment, from the virtues of eating locally and living in the countryside, to the evils of overpopulation, plastic straws and palm oil. It will give you the tools to understand what works, what doesn't and what we urgently need to focus on so we can leave a sustainable planet for future generations.

These problems are big. But they are solvable. We are not doomed. We can build a better future for everyone. Let's turn that opportunity into reality.

By: Hannah Ritchie
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 35mm
Weight: 500g
ISBN: 9781529931242
ISBN 10: 152993124X
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 03 September 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Dr Hannah Ritchie is Senior Researcher in the Programme for Global Development at the University of Oxford. She is also Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher at the highly influential online publication Our World in Data, which brings together the latest data and research on the world's largest problems and makes it accessible for a general audience. Her research appears regularly in the New York Times, Economist, Financial Times, BBC, WIRED, New Scientist and Vox and in bestselling books including Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now, Hans Rosling's Factfulness and Bill Gates's How to Prevent a Climate Disaster. In 2022, Ritchie was named Scotland's Youth Climate Champion and New Scientist called her 'The woman who gave COVID-19 data to the world'.

Reviews for Not the End of the World: Surprising facts, dangerous myths and hopeful solutions for our future on planet Earth

This is a book for anyone who finds it difficult to believe in a better future. It’s the most uplifting book I’ve read all year -- Ben Cooke * The Times * An unmissable myth-busting book to save our planet – read it -- TIM SPECTOR Full of pragmatic, hopeful solutions . . . We urgently need her and people like her – optimists who’ll say: you know what, we can turn this around; look at these numbers, look at these solutions -- Bibi van der Zee * Guardian * An antidote to the hyper-pessimism that pervades climate discourse -- Martha Muir * Financial Times * I love Hannah Ritchie... I love this book. I emerged from it feeling hopeful, which is a high-priced commodity these days -- JOHN GREEN