Fitness Unfiltered Episode 53: How To Be Real Gamechangers: Saving The Planet with Hannah Ritchie

Gamechangers. We have spent the last couple of weeks on social media hearing every side to every argument when it comes to this controversial film from Netflix. So rather than rehash the same information you already know (TL;DR: biased discussion, cherry picked science and unconvincing experiments), we thought that we would come at the vegan discussion from a totally different angle by inviting an environmental scientist, Hannah Ritchie, on to the podcast to talk about the evidence for plant based diets, with a heavy emphasis on the environmental impact of the diets we choose to follow on a population level.

Hannah is one of the authors from ourworldindata.org, an incredible website which collates existing research and data in an attempt to make knowledge on major issues accessible and understandable, to help us make progress against the world’s largest problems. Her main area of research has been on finding the perfect diet to sustain us both nutritionally and environmentally, so this made her the perfect choice to tell us all about the science. Unsurprisingly, just like how nutrition is often poor represented in the mainstream media, other hot topics like climate change, sustainability and yes, plastic straws, suffer a similar fate at the hands of those who may have loud voices but may not have a grasp of what the evidence tells us. We explore all these topics and many more in this episode.

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