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


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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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Timestamps:

(00:00) Do People Think the World is Doomed?

(05:12) The Problem With Doomsday Climate Narratives
(09:13) Most Exaggerated Climate Change Concerns
(16:33) The Emissions Progress in the UK
(18:38) Degrowth & Depopulation as Solutions
(24:34) The Impact of Data in Persuasion
(29:40) Why is Deforestation Happening?
(34:27) Are We Living in an Era of Mass Extinction?
(41:45) The Issue of Ocean Plastics
(47:58) A More Sensible Approach to the Climate Issue
(52:45) China’s Role in Climate Change
(59:40) Where to Find Hannah

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