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(By the way, that is a good general principle with statistics: be careful jumping to any conclusions if the differences are smaller than say, roughly, 10 percent.)
Ola Rosling • Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
We need the right kind of climate optimism
Hannah Ritchie • We Need the Right Kind of Climate Optimism
In effective-population-adjusted terms, we generally see pretty steady declines after any given area hits its initial peak.
Holden Karnofsky • Where's Today's Beethoven?
Our World in Data
ourworldindata.org
With nearly ten thousand new people arriving on earth every hour,
Paul Hawken • Natural Capitalism
emissions are equal to the number of people times their per capita income,
Bjørn Lomborg • Smart Solutions to Climate Change: Comparing Costs and Benefits
What I show is mostly just official UN data. As long as people have a worldview that is so much more negative than reality, pure statistics can make them feel more positive.
Anna Rosling Rönnlund • Factfulness
which on average increases with population size
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
amazon.com