Micro Review: Not the End of the World by Hannah Ritchie

Hannah Ritchie is a scottish data scientist working at Our World in Data, which is my favorite data-spreading organization. So when I discovered she wrote a book about climate change, pollution, and the other problems affecting our dear planet, I was quite happy to read it. Well, to listen to the audiobook. I think non-fiction pop-sciencey books work great as audiobooks, as the authors tend to repeat the same thing over and over and over, otherwise the book would be summed up in an blog post. In this case, I think the author herself is reading the book, which I appreciate from a philosophical point of view, but I found the accent a bit hard to understand at times. In short, the book talks of a lot of issues currently affecting the planet, but unlike many of this kind, it has a positive look at them, because things are bad, but they’re better than they were, and they can improve more. A desperate look at things, is just as bad as one that trivializes issues. We can do better, and…