“We fail to recognize the amount of human progress made” | Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates

When I start to feel overwhelmed by the climate challenges we face, I think about 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. Hannah recently joined me on my podcast, Unconfuse Me, 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. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. Learn more at spoti.fi/3SqOvSq