Hannah Ritchie is a data scientist, senior researcher at the University of Oxford and Deputy Editor at Our World In Data.

Climate alarmism dominates headlines, painting a grim picture of impending global catastrophe. But what if the actual data reveals a less worrying situation, one where we don't all end up in a fiery inferno?

Expect to learn why everyone thinks the world is doomed due to climate change and what we can do about it, why people are more pessimistic about the world than the data suggests, what the actual research shows about climate change, whether concerns about ocean plastics are being over exaggerated, if we're in a mass extinction event, Hannah’s thoughts on population degrowth and much more....

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#743 - Hannah Ritchie - Why Does Everyone Believe The World Is Doomed?