Sustainability in Conversation
Hannah Ritchie's Substack
Following on from recommending her book, here are Ritchie’s ongoing data-based investigations into sustainability, especially various forms of energy.
Hannah Ritchie’s Substack newsletter:
Moving off non-renewable, high-carbon fossil fuels, energy’s future is in the direction of renewables and low-carbon. Nuclear sits in a unique position, being low-carbon but not technically “renewable.” I recently shared Sabine Hossenfelder’s video analysis of nuclear, and a while back I wrote on the importance of intensification generally to going sustainable, including the problem of power density.
Here is Hannah’s most recent newsletter post. Notably, it’s less about technology facts than it is about human perception and public opinion, which is a huge part of the puzzle (and problem). For those of us who are not scientists, data researchers, or policy gurus, this is where we lay people come in.
In a similar vein, here’s a recent interview of Hannah Ritchie by Andy Revkin at
. The goal is to understand better based on actual data. It’s essential to debunk headline-grabbing untruths — while keeping tabs on the big picture and what we do need to care about.
