BK 71: (Jul 9, 2024): Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
Our Jul 9th meeting we will be discussing the book Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie (Jan 9, 2024). With 352 reading pages it is approximately 10 pages a day. Check out the Bio, links and videos below: " This "eye-opening and essential" book (Bill Gates) will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems—and explains how we can solve them. It’s become common to tell kids that they’re going to die from climate change. We are constantly bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won’t be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, and that we should reconsider having children. But in this bold, radically hopeful book, data scientist Hannah Ritchie argues that if we zoom out, a very different picture emerges. In fact, the data shows we’ve made so much progress on these problems that we could be on track to achieve true sustainability for the first time in hum
