Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

by Hannah Ritchie

Many changes that do profoundly shape the world are not rare, exciting or headline-grabbing. They are persistent things that happen day by day and year by year until decades pass and the world has been altered beyond recognition.

my colleague Max Roser puts it: ‘The world is much better; the world is still awful; the world can do much better.’10 All three statements are true.

‘Take only what you need and leave the land as you found it.’

‘Treat the Earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children.’