Not the End of the World by Hannah Ritchie review – an optimist’s guide to the climate crisis

But is there something missing?

• Bibi van der Zee
• The Guardian

Data scientist Hannah Ritchie has written a good-hearted, generous book that tries its very best to reassure us about the various environmental crises we face.

Which, obviously, is much appreciated: God knows we need all the optimism we can get.

Ritchie is lead researcher at the groundbreaking Our World in Data, a website run out of Oxford University.

She begins by describing the moment of revelation she experienced when, after years of feeling helpless and anxious about the state of things, she discovered the…

• Not the End of the…