Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

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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.

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This is a book for anyone who finds it difficult to believe in a better future. Its the most uplifting book Ive 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 wholl 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

Author Bio

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'.