The World's Address Problems

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The project started with Max Rosa, many years ago now for most of that period. It was him working on his own, and then kind of almost posting as a blog on Internet. And really our motivation for the project is that we have this kind of weird position where we're almost like misfits and academia. We frame it around what we call the world's address problems. That's very broad and ranges from global poverty to the stuff I work on an environment to global war to inequality and health. Most of these topics overlap in some way.

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.