238. Impatient for Change with Hannah Ritchie
Outrage + Optimism
Persephonica
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week, the hosts welcome Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor at Our World in Data and a Senior Researcher at the University of Oxford as our guest and discuss her book ‘Not the End of the World, How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet’.
In this compelling episode, join the hosts and special guest Hannah as they delve into the intricate dynamics of data, cautious optimism, and doom narratives within the climate community. Don't miss out as we explore the crucial role these elements play in shaping perspectives and driving action. Plus, Hannah treats us to an insightful reading from her remarkable work, offering a poignant addition to our discussion. Tune in for a thought-provoking dialogue you won't want to miss!
Music comes from Fran Lusty with her pop-folk ballad ‘I Hate My Job’. Fran is an Indie-folk singer-songwriter born in Cambridge with Norwegian roots, see her pages below to listen to more of her soul-stirring nature inspired songs.
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Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor at Our World in Data and a Senior Researcher at the University of Oxford
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You can buy her book here: Not the End of the World, How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
MUSIC
Fran Lusty
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People of the State of California v. Big Oil / The text of the lawsuit is here
Our Story of Nature, Deep Dive Series Website
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| 0:15.0 | Hello and welcome'm Christina Figuette is and I'm Christina Figuette |
| 0:18.0 | and I'm Paul Dickinson and Tom will be with us throughout this episode, but he's not here right now. He will pop in as soon as we get to the interview that we're bringing you with Hannah Ritchie, deputy editor, and lead researcher at Our World in Data. |
| 0:37.6 | And Paul, do we have music? |
| 0:39.3 | We do, this week we have an amazing track from Fran Lusty and it's called I hate my job. |
| 0:44.3 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:45.9 | Yeah Paul so we're going to do things just a little bit differently today, correct? |
| 0:56.5 | We're going to share with listeners our interview with Dr. Hannah Ritchie and then we will have a little conversation |
| 1:07.2 | about it is that right in reverse exactly we're doing the same thing that we |
| 1:10.5 | normally do but in reverse and I didn't think that there was |
| 1:14.0 | anything particularly that was drawing us in the news, so for now let's start |
| 1:18.9 | off with just an amazing interview. So who, Christina, is Hannah Ricci? Dr. Hannah Ricci is deputy |
| 1:26.3 | editor and lead researcher at Our World in Data. She's the Senior Research |
| 1:32.1 | Fellow at the Oxford Martin Program in Global Development at the University of Oxford. |
| 1:38.8 | And she has recently published the book entitled, Not the End of the World, |
| 1:45.2 | how we can be the first generation to build a sustainable planet. |
| 1:50.8 | So quite a, uh, quite a challenging title there for putting out a message that is I would say pretty different from the predominant message that we're hearing these days. |
| 2:04.3 | But Paul, here's the thing. Do you know that Dr. Hannah-Ritchie is 31 years old? |
| 2:11.8 | This woman has written this book that is just a plethora of data and |
| 2:19.9 | analysis of that data. I have no idea when she sleeps or eats, but how much had you done by the time you were 31, Paul? |
| 2:29.0 | I don't think that I could possibly stand it. I've done a few years you know in in custody. I've done my |
| 2:37.1 | time as they say I've been let out and I was being rehabituated into society. But look, is it challenging what Hannah's saying or is it empowering? |
| 2:48.8 | That's really the question. But I mean, this is a brilliant interview with a brilliant person. |
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