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Hannah Ritchie
Data scientist and researcher
Hannah Ritchie is a Scottish data scientist, senior researcher at the University of Oxford in the Oxford Martin School, and deputy editor at Our World in Data. Her work focuses on sustainability, in relation to climate change, energy, food and agriculture, biodiversity, air pollution, deforestation, and public health.
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The idea that it’s “too late” to reduce emissions fuels cynicism and despair, putting us on an even worse trajectory.
1hr 17mins
"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."
A deep dive into missing data and the limitations of disaster databases.
The majority of people in every country support action on climate, but the public consistently underestimates this share.
Food transport accounted for only 6% of emissions, but the production of dairy, meat, and eggs accounted for 83%
Explore data on electric car sales and stocks worldwide.
Changes in the world population are determined by two metrics: the number of babies born, and number of people dying.
Many countries just ship their plastic waste overseas.
Livestock now outweighs wild mammals and birds ten-fold.
This marks a historic moment in humanity’s relationship to the planet.