Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

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Hannah Ritchie

Not the End of the World

How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

Hannah Ritchie

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Chatto & Windus
09 January 2024

Social forecasting, future studies; Mathematics & Sciences; Global warming; Sustainability; Environmental science, engineering & technology; Self-sufficiency

The first book from an outstandingly talented science communicator -- and the shot of hope we all need right now
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*A FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, WAITROSE WEEKEND BEST SUMMER READ
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'A book for anyone who finds it difficult to believe in a better future' THE TIMES

Feeling anxious, powerless, or confused about the future of our planet? This book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems -- and how we can solve them.

A STYLIST BEST NON-FICTION 2024
* A GUARDIAN BIGGEST FICTION AND NON-FICTION FOR 2024
* A WATERSTONES 'BOOK YOU NEED TO READ IN 2024'
* A GUARDIAN 'FIVE GREAT READS'

We are bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won't be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, that we should reconsider having children.

But in this bold, radically hopeful book, data scientist Hannah Ritchie argues that if we zoom out, a very different picture emerges. The data shows we've made so much progress on these problems, and so fast, that we could be on track to achieve true sustainability for the first time in history.

Packed with the latest research, practical guidance and enlightening graphics, this book will make you rethink almost everything you've been told about the environment, from the virtues of eating locally and living in the countryside, to the evils of overpopulation, plastic straws and palm oil. It will give you the tools to understand what works, what doesn't and what we urgently need to focus on so we can leave a sustainable planet for future generations.

These problems are big. But they are solvable. We are not doomed. We can build a better future for everyone. Let's turn that opportunity into reality.

'Practical and truly essential' MARGARET ATWOOD
* 'Does for the environment what Hans Rosling did for health' BILL GATES
* 'Invigorating, inspiring, often surprising' DAVID WALLACE-WELLS
* 'I find it hard to express how much I love this book' RUTGER BREGMAN
* 'An unmissable myth-busting book to save our planet - read it' TIM SPECTOR

By: Hannah Ritchie
Imprint: Chatto & Windus
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 423g
ISBN: 9781784745011
ISBN 10: 1784745014
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 09 January 2024
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr Hannah Ritchie is Senior Researcher in the Programme for Global Development at the University of Oxford. She is also Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher at the highly influential online publication Our World in Data, which brings together the latest data and research on the world's largest problems and makes it accessible for a general audience. Her research appears regularly in the New York Times, Economist, Financial Times, BBC, WIRED, New Scientist and Vox and in bestselling books including Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now, Hans Rosling's Factfulness and Bill Gates's How to Prevent a Climate Disaster. In 2022, Ritchie was named Scotland's Youth Climate Champion and New Scientist called her 'The woman who gave COVID-19 data to the world'.

Reviews for Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

This is a book for anyone who finds it difficult to believe in a better future. It’s the most uplifting book I’ve read all year -- Ben Cooke * The Times * Full of pragmatic, hopeful solutions . . . We urgently need her and people like her – optimists who’ll say: you know what, we can turn this around; look at these numbers, look at these solutions -- Bibi van der Zee * Guardian * Full of “radical hope” digging behind the doomsday predictions to find out ways we can and will make the world a better place * Stylist * There is real peril in our widespread failure to understand just how much human lives have been improved through societal efforts . . . As Ritchie demonstrates, a better future for both people and planet is possible and even achievable -- Earl C Ellis * Science * It is rare to find a book covering climate change with such an optimistic message . . . An admirable feat . . . a highly readable guide to fixing the planet -- Madeleine Cuff * New Scientist *