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We Need the Right Kind of Climate Optimism
What Would a World With Abundant Energy Look Like? Materials Scientist Deb Chachra Has an Idea.
Izzie Ramirezvox.comas bad as climate doomism is, so is what she called “hopeium” — an unfounded optimism that someone else will come up with a magical climate solution akin to a silver bullet. “Underneath doomerism and hopeium is the question of ‘Are we going to win?’’” Ms. Heglar said. “That’s premature at this point. We need to ask ourselves if we’re going to try.... See more
New York Times • ‘OK, Doomer’ and the Climate Advocates Who Say It’s Not Too Late
In an extract from her book Not the End of the World, data scientist Hannah Ritchie explains how her work taught her that there are more reasons for hope than despair about climate change – and why a truly sustainable world is in reach