Are We The Last Generation, Or The First Sustainable One?

23 Sep 2023 | Abstracted from TED Talks

The word "sustainability" gets thrown around a lot these days. But what does it actually mean for humanity to be sustainable? Environmental data scientist Hannah Ritchie digs into the numbers behind human progress across centuries [in this TED talk video], unpacking why the conventional understanding of sustainability is misleading and showing how we can be the first generation of humans to actually achieve it."

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