
Hannah Ritchie
Host at It Gets Good
Deputy Editor at Our World in Data
Deputy Editor @OurWorldinData / Researcher at @UniofOxford / Honorary Fellow at @EdinburghUni @EdCentreCC / Not the End of the World: https://t.co/FoINhggvoR
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5 days ago |
ourworldindata.org | Hannah Ritchie |Fiona Spooner
As much as one-quarter of deaths in Europe and the United States were once from tuberculosis. People often romanticize what’s rare and look down on what’s common. This was not the case for tuberculosis. It was everywhere, but still carried a strange sense of allure. By the middle of the 18th century, around 1% of London's population was dying from tuberculosis (TB) every year. You can see this in the chart below, which shows modeled estimates of TB death rates in London.1Let’s pause on that.
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2 weeks ago |
ourworldindata.org | Hannah Ritchie
How will artificial intelligence (AI) impact people’s jobs? This question has no simple answer, but the more AI systems can independently carry out long, job-like tasks, the greater their impact will likely be. The chart shows a trend in this direction for software-related tasks. The length of tasks — in terms of how long they take human professionals — that AIs can do on their own has increased quickly in the past couple of years.
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3 weeks ago |
onet.pl | Hannah Ritchie
Przyszłość Ziemi zależy od nasMłode pokolenie często słyszy, że nadciąga katastrofa klimatyczna. Jeśli nie wykończy nas fala upałów, zrobi to szalejący ogień. Albo huragan, powódź czy klęska głodu. Niewiarygodne, jak wielu z nas powtarza te pesymistyczne wizje swoim dzieciom. Nie powinno zatem dziwić, że większość młodych ludzi obawia się o swoją przyszłość i uważa, że ich świat jest w niebezpieczeństwie. Myślenie o kondycji naszej planety wzbudza w nich silny niepokój i lęk.
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3 weeks ago |
sustainabilitybynumbers.com | Hannah Ritchie
When it comes to clean energy technologies, China is crushing it. It dominates the supply chain of the main energy minerals. It’s not only rolling out solar power rapidly at home, it’s also exporting huge amounts of solar panels elsewhere. Take a look at the chart below, which shows solar PV exports from China to the rest of the world. Increasingly, these panels are going to low-to-middle income countries who are hungry for energy, and will go after whatever’s cheap: that’s Chinese solar.
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3 weeks ago |
ourworldindata.org | Hannah Ritchie
It’s difficult to compare countries because they don’t always measure infant mortality in the same way. Which country is the safest for a baby to be born? Answering this question might seem easy: divide the number of infants who die by the total number of infants born; make a map of these rates and find the lowest number.
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RT @vintagebooks: Not The End of the World @_HannahRitchie's radically hopeful, bestselling book is out in paperback today! We took to th…

📚🇬🇧 Very happy to see my book coming out in paperback in the UK today! It looks at 7 of our big environmental problems (not just climate) and charts the journey of how we got here, progress that has been made (yes, there has been some) and importantly, what we need to do next. https://t.co/aWNX8gVJdM

Excited to be starting on a new project this week – focused on clean energy & dismantling delays in tackling climate change ☀️💨 I’ll be working on that in addition to my full-time roles, so I'll be away from here for a bit. See you on the other side! Keep decarbonising!