I loved this book. It’s written by an environmental scientist who works at Our World in Data, and she’s here to tell us that doomerism about climate change is not only counterproductive, it’s wrong. Many of the negative trends in environmental science that we’re worried about are slowing or in fact improving, and many of us haven’t even realized it. This isn’t a call to be complacent – it’s a call for cautious optimism, for us to say “we can fix this if we work hard! We can be the first sustainable generation in history!” I love how almost all the major problems Ritchie talks about (from air pollution to deforestation to food production to climate change) already have technological solutions. We know how to solve these problems – we just need the will (at a local, national, and international level) to solve them. We’ve collectively solved hard problems before (such as the hole in the ozone layer and acid rain), and we can solve the ones we face now. This book was a breath of fresh air (no pun intended) and I highly recommend it for anyone who’s feeling like the end is nigh and we should all just resign ourselves to dying from climate change.