16. Hannah Ritchie on Our World in Data and some of the world's biggest problems

Challenging Climate

Dr Hannah Ritchie is a Senior Researcher at the Oxford Martin Programme in Global Development and the Head of Research at Our World in Data. In this episode, we spoke with Hannah about her work at Our World in Data and her article, "Stop Telling Kids They’ll Die From Climate Change". We discuss her thoughts on what some of the world's most pressing problems are, touching on topics such as agriculture, the link between meat consumption and poverty, education and more.
Links:

• Hannah Ritchie’s profile
• Hannah's article, "Stop Telling Kids They’ll Die From Climate Change"
• The world’s biggest problem: Agriculture (check out the data here)
• Here’s an article on meat consumption and climate change by Hannah
• And another one
• Dollar Street Gapminder

Definitely check out these Our World In Data articles as well:

• Decoupling of GDP and carbon emissions
• Carbon dioxide Data Explorer
• Economic growth in low- and middle-income countries
• Global improvements in quality of education

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Chapters

1. 16. Hannah Ritchie on Our World in Data and some of the world's biggest problems (00:00:00)

2. Introduction and background (00:02:38)

3. What is Our World In Data? (00:05:17)

4. Stop Telling Kids They’ll Die From Climate Change (00:08:50)

5. Surprising data trends we should all know about (00:19:04)

6. What are our world’s biggest problems? (00:29:15)

7. The Environmental Kuznets Curve (00:41:47)

8. Shifting towards Covid-19 data (00:44:15)

9. Worries for our planet’s future (00:49:12)