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We need the right kind of climate optimism
Hannah Ritchie • We Need the Right Kind of Climate Optimism
Holden Karnofsky • Where's Today's Beethoven?
Paddy Carter • When growth does – and does not – reduce poverty
I thought most of us were going to die from the climate crisis. I was wrong | Climate crisis | The Guardian
Astasia Myers • Community is the New Moat!
Unfortunately, the people on Level 4 paying for ReliefWeb are the same people we asked about the trend in natural disasters. Ninety-one percent of them are unaware of the success they are paying for because their journalists continue to report every disaster as if it were the worst.
Ola Rosling • Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Astasia Myers • Community is the New Moat!
When I see a lonely number in a news report, it always triggers an alarm: What should this lonely number be compared to? What was that number a year ago? Ten years ago? What is it in a comparable country or region? And what should it be divided by? What is the total of which this is a part? What would this be per person? I compare the rates, and on
... See moreOla Rosling • Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Just as I have urged you to look behind the statistics at the individual stories, I also urge you to look behind the individual stories at the statistics. The world cannot be understood without numbers. And it cannot be understood with numbers alone.