Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our planet? This book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems — and how we can solve them. We are bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won’t be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, that we should reconsider having children. But in this bold, radically hopeful book, data scientist Hannah Ritchie argues that if we zoom out, a very different picture emerges. The data shows we’ve made so much progress on these problems, and so fast, that we could be on track to achieve true sustainability for the first time in history. Tonight is the launch of the Dutch translation of the book.
About the author
Hannah Ritchie is a data scientist and science communicator. She focuses on the largest problems that shape our world and how to solve them. Most of her work focuses on environmental sustainability, including climate change, energy, food and agriculture, biodiversity, air pollution and deforestation. She is Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher at Our World in Data, and a researcher at the Oxford Martin Programme in Global Development, at the University of Oxford. Her TED talk ‘Are we the last generation — or the first sustainable one?’ has almost a million views.
About the moderator
Jaap Tielbeke is a climate journalist for De Groene Amsterdammer. He is the author of the books Een beter milieu begint niet bij jezelf (2020), an inquiry into who is responsible for solving the climate crisis and We waren gewaarschuwd (2022), an analysis of the (lack of) climate policies in the fifty years that have passed since the ground breaking environmental report Limiths to Growth by the Club of Rome (1972). Currently he co-hosts the TV show Wat houdt ons tegen? in which he investigates what is necessary for real sustainable transformation.
Voel je je angstig, machteloos en verward over de toekomst van onze planeet? Niet het einde van de wereld van Hannah Ritchie zorgt ervoor dat je op een andere manier naar onze grootste klimaatproblemen gaat kijken – en naar de oplossing daarvan.
The word "sustainability" gets thrown around a lot these days. But what does it actually mean for humanity to be sustainable? Environmental data scientist Hannah Ritchie digs into the numbers behind human progress across centuries, unpacking why the conventional understanding of sustainability is misleading and showing how we can be the first generation of humans to actually achieve it.
Not the End of the World is filled with charts and data. That's fundamental to the book: trying to understand the world through data and research, not anecdotes or headlines. Here you'll find some additional resources and interactive versions of charts that are used in the book.
Zeker 8 miljoen mensen per jaar sterven vroegtijdig door luchtverontreiniging. De oorzaak is helder: mensen verbranden dingen. Dat is de wortel van het probleem, maar ook de sleutel tot de oplossing.
In an extract from her book Not the End of the World, data scientist Hannah Ritchie explains how her work taught her that there are more reasons for hope than despair about climate change – and why a truly sustainable world is in reach
The scientist, whose book Not the End of the World offers a data-based analysis of environmental problems and their solutions, on how being informed and engaged can prevent defeatism.
Klimaatexperts moeten meer aandacht geven aan oplossingen en minder prominent zwartgallige waarschuwingen geven. Daarvoor pleit Bart van den Hurk, de nieuwe covoorzitter van het IPCC. Wat is de juiste balans, tussen de alarmbellen en reddingsboeien? Vier experts reageren.
