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Episode 7: Hannah Ritchie

2024/2/1
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通过数据驱动的方法解决大规模环境问题和实现可持续性的数据科学家和研究员。
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Hannah Ritchie: 本书的核心观点是,气候变化、空气污染、粮食安全和生物多样性等环境问题虽然严峻,但并非不可解决。通过数据驱动的方法,我们可以更好地理解这些问题,并找到有效的解决方案。作者回顾了人类在解决臭氧层空洞和酸雨等环境问题上的成功经验,并指出,发达国家在减少空气污染和温室气体排放方面也取得了显著进展。此外,作者还强调了经济发展与环境保护之间的关系,指出随着经济发展,人们的应对自然灾害的能力也随之增强,灾害死亡率显著下降。作者认为,虽然不必陷入绝望,但应对环境问题的紧迫性依然很高,需要更快地取得进展。 本书并非旨在制造虚假的安全感,而是呼吁采取行动,在现有技术的基础上,进一步推动科技创新,特别是在食品和农业领域,以实现可持续发展。发达国家应在降低低碳技术成本方面发挥作用,避免发展中国家在减排和脱贫之间做出艰难选择。 Bill Gates: 认同Hannah Ritchie 的观点,并强调了积极的数据对保持公众参与度的重要性。他赞赏本书全面地呈现了积极的数据点,并相信本书能够激发讨论,促进行动。

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This chapter explores Hannah Ritchie's perspective on humanity's ability to solve environmental problems, emphasizing the importance of a data-driven approach. It highlights the progress made in tackling air pollution and the need to accelerate solutions for other environmental issues.
  • Air pollution causes more premature deaths than climate change currently.
  • Significant progress has been made in reducing ozone layer depletion and acid rain.
  • The Environmental Kuznets Curve shows a decline in air pollution as countries become wealthier.
  • Addressing air pollution can intersect with climate change mitigation efforts.

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When I start to feel overwhelmed by the climate challenges we face, I turn to Hannah Ritchie, a researcher at Our World in Data). Her data-driven approach is an essential antidote to environmental doomsday-ism and provides some much-needed optimism about humanity’s ability to tackle big problems. I recently sat down with Hannah to talk about her terrific new book Not the End of the World), why it’s so hard to wrap our minds around human progress, what we would ask a time traveler about the future, and more.

- Not the End of the World: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hannah-ritchie/not-the-end-of-the-world/9780316536752/)

- Hannah’s TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl3VVrggKz4)

- Our World in Data: https://ourworldindata.org/)

- Environmental Kuznets curve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuznets_curve#Environmental_Kuznets_curve)

- Prolific Machines: https://www.prolific-machines.com/)

- Life is Grand by Camper Van Beethoven: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0axoVpNadYM&ab_channel=indieitunes)