Episode 7: Hannah Ritchie
Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates
Recognizing Human Progress and Underrated Environmental Challenges
The speaker used to believe that environmental trends were continually worsening, without considering human wellbeing trends. Discovering the work of Hans Rosling was a turning point, as it highlighted human progress over the last few centuries. The speaker emphasized the importance of recognizing the amount of human progress made. In addition to climate change, the speaker highlighted air pollution as an underrated problem, causing a substantial number of premature deaths annually, even more than climate change.
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