ON Monday, a story from the Agence France-Presse (AFP) wire appeared in The Manila Times that almost made me hurl my coffee cup at the wall in disgust. The story was a brief review of a book titled 'Not the End of the World' by Hannah Ritchie, the lead researcher at Our World in Data based at Oxford University in the UK.
ON Monday, a story from the Agence France-Presse wire appeared in The Manila Times that almost made me hurl my coffee cup at the wall in disgust. The story was a brief review of a book titled 'Not the End of the World' by Hannah Ritchie, the lead researcher at Our World in Data based at Oxford University in the UK. Evidently, someone at AFP let their enthusiasm get the better of them, or it was just a slow news day; however this nonsense ended up on the wire does not really matter.
'Much of what she presents does make sense; for example, when she describes how efforts toward plastic recycling in developed countries in Europe are largely performative; most plastic pollution comes from Asia, and even if that were not so, throwing one's empty plastic drink bottle in the recycling bin doesn't make much difference if most every other aspect of one's daily activities are environmentally harmful.
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