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Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
Climate / Data
Our World in Data's lead researcher takes seven environmental crises — climate, air pollution, deforestation, food, biodiversity, ocean plastics, overfishing — and shows, with hard data, that doomerism is wrong. The book Gates now hands out as an antidote to climate fatalism.
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Bill Gates
Dedicated gatesnotes review. Gates frames Ritchie as the heir to Hans Rosling and the book as the antidote to climate doomsday-ism.
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Stewart Brand
“Ecopragmatism at its best shines throughout this book... The surprising message in the data is that human civilization is far along toward solving planetary problems.”
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Boyan Slat
“Go read this book”