Is It Too Late for Us to Slow Climate Warming? | Hannah Ritchie, PhD

“I think the key point is that doesn't mean game over. That doesn't mean we're flipped into a world, and to a point of no return.” 

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Dr. Hannah Ritchie is Senior Researcher in the Programme for Global Development at the University of Oxford. She is also Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher at Our World in Data. Her research appears regularly in the New York Times, The Economist, and the Financial Times, and in bestselling books including Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now. She is the author of Not the End of the World.

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