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by Hannah Ritchie
Who uses, recommends or left Not the End of the World, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
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His life and work have influenced my own tremendously—and just a few pages into Ritchie’s essential and hopeful new book, Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet, it became clear that she was carrying on his tremendous legacy.
Gates's 2023 holiday reading list entry on Hannah Ritchie's climate book.
2023-11-20·gatesnotes.com ↗
What struck me the most about both of these was the strength and pervasiveness of the media bias towards negativity, and how fervently people want to continue believing in downfall of all that is good and the intrinsic evil of modernity, even when faced with clear evidence otherwise.
His standing "Reads that lasted" page — books and essays that had a lasting impact on him. The page carries no visible date; 2026-08-20 is its Last-Modified header.
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
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The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.
What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:
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