Not the End of the World

Every few years to read a book that originates from the Hans Rosling school of data analytics and positivism, feels like a good medicine for all doomsday thoughts.

Ritchie does a good job reminding us that three things can be true at the same time:
- things are bad (people die due to air pollution, ocean warming kills off coral reefs ...)
- things are good (green energy solutions are now cheaper than fossil fuel, a lot of endangered species are now thriving again ...)
- we can still improve (let's catch all the plastic escaping into the ocean, let's not use so many land and water resource only to feed cattle ... )

The book tackles 7 areas: air pollution, climate change, deforestation, food, biodiversity, ocean plastics, and overfishing. Ritchie picks apart related doomsday headlines, explains the misinterpretations, gives accurate data, and tells what to stress less and what to stress more about.

Good lesson to take from this:
- What food you buy is more important than where it came from and how it is packaged!

It's crazy how much impact eating-less-beef would have on all the problems we're facing.

Vote in elections and vote with your money!