Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet (Hardback)

This is a book for anyone who finds it difficult to believe in a better future. It’s the most uplifting book I’ve read all year - Ben Cooke, The Times

It’s time to drop the vibes-based approach to environmentalism for something a little more robust - Matt Reynolds, Wired

Full of “radical hope” digging behind the doomsday predictions to find out ways we can and will make the world a better place - Stylist

Full of pragmatic, hopeful solutions . . . We urgently need her and people like her – optimists who’ll say: you know what, we can turn this around; look at these numbers, look at these solutions - Bibi van der Zee, Guardian

There is real peril in our widespread failure to understand just how much human lives have been improved through societal efforts . . . As Ritchie demonstrates, a better future for both people and planet is possible and even achievable - Earl C Ellis, Science

Is there any room for hope amid the doomladen headlines about the environment? Emphatically yes, argues data scientist Ritchie - Guardian

Not the End of the World uses data to illuminate the message that information – and engagement – can help us resist defeatism about the climate crisis - Imogen Dewey, Guardian Australia

I love Hannah Ritchie... I love this book. I emerged from it feeling hopeful, which is a high-priced commodity these days - JOHN GREEN

An inspiring data-mine which gives us not only real guidance, but the most necessary ingredient of all: hope - MARGARET ATWOOD, TED2023

The climate and environmental crisis now has its Hans Rosling. Hannah Ritchie has charted an invigorating, inspiring, often surprising tour of recent human history and the many marks of progress it contains. Will the world make good on that optimism in the future? That is up to the rest of us - DAVID WALLACE-WELLS, author of The Uninhabitable Earth

It shines with practicality and positivity . . . Let's get it into the hands of as many policy makers, politicians and fellow citizens as possible - RUTGER BREGMAN, author of Human Kind: A Hopeful History

The perfect book to start your new year reading on a hopeful footing - The Earthbound Report

Such a clear-eyed view of the state we're in - TIM HARFORD, author of How to Make the World Add Up

A refreshing perspective on the problems that the world faces, providing plenty of optimism while not sugar-coating the deep structural challenges at the root of it all - HELEN CZERSKI, author of Blue Machine

Data is a superpower. Let Hannah Ritchie show you the world as it really is. Then go out and change it for the better - MARK LYNAS, author of Six Degrees