I’m somewhat disappointed at all this “my way is the right way”.
There is still a large portion of climate deniers out there. There is still an extremely powerful, rich minority that simply doesn’t care.
But no, people who are optimistically worried about climate change tell people that have a pessimistic picture of humanity that they are wrong.
Some context here: she works for Our World in Data, which is Hans Rosling’s organisation. While I don’t have a problem with Rosling, he’s ideologically aligned with Pinker and liberalism in general. There are good critiques of both, namely that they think no problems require systemic solutions, and their supposed empiricism comes with some serious holes.
The funniest example of this is JK Rowling “solving” slavery in Harry Potter by… declaring that slaves just like being slaves. IIRC unlearning economics has a good video on Pinkerism.
Hans Roslings organization is Gapminder and not Our World in Data.
Our World in Data was founded by Max Roser and Tony Atkinson. Atkinson actually has been a mentor of Piketty and wrote a number of books with him.
My apologies. I saw Rosling mentioned in the article and misremembered the site. Serves me right for writing the comment distracted and without doing my DD.
Any perspective of climate change that doesn’t have its foundation in anti-capitalism is climate-change denial.
It is bizarre that this person is begging for 10 more years of capitalism at a time when the environmental disasters are becoming painfully apparent while the powers that be continue to ramp up production, profits, and exploitation.
