Not the End of the World

This is a book for anyone who finds it difficult to believe in a better future. Its the most uplifting book Ive read all year -- Ben Cooke * The Times * An unmissable myth-busting book to save our planet read it -- TIM SPECTOR Full of pragmatic, hopeful solutions . . . We urgently need her and people like her optimists wholl say: you know what, we can turn this around; look at these numbers, look at these solutions -- Bibi van der Zee * Guardian * An antidote to the hyper-pessimism that pervades climate discourse -- Martha Muir * Financial Times * I love Hannah Ritchie... I love this book. I emerged from it feeling hopeful, which is a high-priced commodity these days -- JOHN GREEN That all is not lost and that there is hope is the main message to take away from this well-argued, well-evidenced book -- Nick Renninson * Daily Mail * Full of radical hope digging behind the doomsday predictions to find out ways we can and will make the world a better place * Stylist * There is real peril in our widespread failure to understand just how much human lives have been improved through societal efforts . . . As Ritchie demonstrates, a better future for both people and planet is possible and even achievable -- Earl C Ellis * Science * It is rare to find a book covering climate change with such an optimistic message . . . An admirable feat . . . a highly readable guide to fixing the planet -- Madeleine Cuff * New Scientist * Ritchie dismantles many of the worst predictions of ecological doomism, lays out clearly what is already happening, and what tools we have available to us to halt the worst environmental destruction -- Emma Gatten * Telegraph * Ritchie makes it clear that progress is already happening... Now, we must keep that momentum going -- Megan Kenyon * New Statesman * An inspiring data-mine which gives us not only real guidance, but the most necessary ingredient of all: hope -- MARGARET ATWOOD, TED2023 Invigorating, inspiring, often surprising -- DAVID WALLACE-WELLS It shines with practicality and positivity . . . Let's get it into the hands of as many policy makers, politicians and fellow citizens as possible -- RUTGER BREGMAN Such a clear-eyed view of the state we're in -- TIM HARFORD, author of How to Make the World Add Up Useful, timely and inspiring * Literary Review * A refreshing perspective on the problems that the world faces, providing plenty of optimism while not sugar-coating the deep structural challenges at the root of it all -- HELEN CZERSKI, author of Blue Machine Data is a superpower. Let Hannah Ritchie show you the world as it really is. Then go out and change it for the better -- MARK LYNAS, author of Six Degrees

Dr Hannah Ritchie is Senior Researcher in the Programme for Global Development at the University of Oxford. She is also Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher at the highly influential online publication Our World in Data, which brings together the latest data and research on the world's largest problems and makes it accessible for a general audience. Her research appears regularly in the New York Times, Economist, Financial Times, BBC, WIRED, New Scientist and Vox and in bestselling books including Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now, Hans Rosling's Factfulness and Bill Gates's How to Prevent a Climate Disaster. In 2022, Ritchie was named Scotland's Youth Climate Champion and New Scientist called her 'The woman who gave COVID-19 data to the world'.