Hannah Ritchie: The data behind our biggest environmental problems | Full Interview

"It's not that I don't think these problems are big or that they're urgent, but I can start to see that these problems are solvable."

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About Hannah Ritchie:

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 Our World in Data. Her research appears regularly in the New York Times, The Economist, and the Financial Times, and in bestselling books including Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now. She is the author of Not the End of the World.