#320: Hannah Ritchie, PhD – Environmental Impacts of our Diet: Climate, Carbon Footprint & Land Use
Sigma Nutrition Radio
Danny Lennon
4.8 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Hannah Ritchie is a researcher at the University of Oxford, working at the online publication OurWorldinData.org. The publication aims to present empirical research on how the world is changing through the use of interactive data visualisations and explainers.
Her research is focused on the intersection between sustainability and global development, with a focus on how to couple economic development and improved living standards with environmental sustainability.
Hannah holds a BSc in Environmental Geoscience, and an MSc in Carbon Management from the University of Edinburgh. There, her doctoral studies focused on the assessment of global food systems and their capacity to address malnutrition and environmental sustainability simultaneously.
At the University of Edinburgh she was also a lecturer in Sustainability, Society and Environment, and worked on the development of teaching programmes directed towards interdisciplinary approaches to sustainability. She has worked on a number of sustainability consulting and industry-led projects.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you are listening to Sigma Nutrition Radio. I am your host, Danny Lennon. We're at episode |
| 0:07.1 | 320 of the podcast today. And we are kind of breaking some new territory with today's topic. |
| 0:14.4 | And it's one that I am really, really interested in hearing your feedback about. It's a topic |
| 0:20.0 | that I have really been relatively ignorant |
| 0:23.1 | about for a long period of time because it's outside of nutritional science per se. And that is how |
| 0:30.0 | some of our dietary choices can play a role in impacting the environment. And there's lots of |
| 0:36.6 | issues tied up amongst this. |
| 0:38.3 | Now to give some context to today's discussion, I am currently doing a series of conversations |
| 0:47.3 | that relate to the broader topic of the ethics of eating or the ethics of different types of diets. And this is a kind of big project |
| 0:55.9 | that I've been working on for a while. And hopefully there will be some news of that release |
| 1:01.8 | relatively soon. And I'm really excited about that. And one of the things that gets tied within |
| 1:08.2 | the ethics of different types of diets, although a slight |
| 1:11.2 | different issue compared to ethics and morality, which I would put on its own, one that's |
| 1:17.3 | a kind of a side point that gets brought up, but I wanted to treat part of that discussion, |
| 1:21.8 | but also separately, was the impact of those food choices on the environment. |
| 1:28.9 | And right now, obviously, that's a huge topic when it comes to the impacts on climate, |
| 1:35.3 | the impacts on sustainability, our carbon footprint, |
| 1:39.0 | and how various choices we make may play some role in the desirable or undesirable changes in the environment. |
| 1:48.8 | And this is a topic that you've probably seen discussed at several points when people debate |
| 1:54.5 | different types of diets, right? People have different ideologies around a diet. This is one that |
| 1:59.7 | gets brought up. However, I don't have any expertise in this area, and I think a lot of people don't, even people who are making large claims. |
| 2:09.6 | And so I wanted to try and find someone who could really speak from a truly expert position on this. |
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