It’s hard to be optimistic about the world when you see the devastating effects of climate change all around you.
It’s even harder when you study environmental science and see, first hand, just how far behind we are in implementing the changes necessary to protect the planet.
Hannah Ritchie, a University of Oxford data and environmental scientist, says that kind of pessimism gets in the way of progress.
What’s more, she says, a doom-and-bloom mindset ignores the fact people have made the world a better place to live in, and continue to do so every day. The data, she says, bears this out.
Ritchie is the deputy
