Hannah Ritchie on Eating Local

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🗓️ 2 January 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Having completed several degrees in environmental science, Hannah Ritchie nearly left the field out of helplessness and frustration, worried she would never make a real difference. Today, she's a passionate advocate for changing climate messaging, replacing what she believes are paralyzing--and often false--claims with empowering arguments that people can embrace. Listen as the head of research at Our World in Data talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about food emissions, low-carbon technologies, and what the data shows about what matters (and what matters much less) when it comes to climate change.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics
0:07.0	and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:13.0	Institution.
0:14.0	Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode and find links down
0:18.6	the information related to today's conversation.
0:21.6	You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:30.3	We'd love to hear from you.
0:37.7	Today is December 20th, 2022 and my guest is scientist Hannah Richey.
0:43.4	She is the head of research at our world in data and online web publication focused on research
0:48.5	and data to understand and make progress against the world's largest problems.
0:53.3	She's also a senior researcher with the Oxford Martin program in global development.
0:58.1	Hannah, welcome to econtalk.
0:59.1	It's a pleasure to be here.
1:01.5	Our topic for today is the environmental case for eating local food and the concern many
1:07.9	people have about what are called food miles.
1:11.6	Let's just start with the obvious, seeming truth that importing food or eating food that
1:19.6	comes from far away would seem to be worse for the environment than food that is nearby.
1:26.2	Is that true?
1:27.2	Not really.
1:29.2	I mean, the rationale for it makes sense when you think about it.
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