#160 – Hannah Ritchie on why it makes sense to be optimistic about the environment

<p>"There's no money to invest in education elsewhere, so they almost get trapped in the cycle where they don't get a lot from crop production, but everyone in the family has to work there to just stay afloat. Basically, you get locked in. There's almost no opportunities externally to go elsewhere. So one of my core arguments is that if you're going to address global poverty, you have to increase agricultural productivity in sub-Saharan Africa. There's almost no way of avoiding that." — Hannah Ritchie</p><p>In today’s episode, host Luisa Rodriguez interviews the head of research at Our...