Comment by philipkglass
10 hours ago
The author Hannah Ritchie works on Our World In Data and also publishes the fantastic Sustainability by Numbers substack. It's in the same vein as the late, great David MacKay's Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air.
This tool has its own recent substack post. See the comments too, especially the one by Chris Preist that contextualizes the energy usage of streaming video (a topic that has also been discussed on HN before).
And wrote a great book: Not the End of the World
Yep. It's a very good book and well worth a read.
It's interesting to see how upset people are on Goodreads about that book:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/145624737-not-the-end-of...
The top reviews are mostly people angry with Ritchie for not being a catastrophist.
Who pays for their research?
She's employed by Our World In Data. She is also a published author of printed books. Her substack does not have paid subscriptions enabled (or at least it did not as of last summer; see this post [1]). Our World In Data is funded by donations:
https://ourworldindata.org/funding
[1] https://hannahritchie.substack.com/p/reflections-on-substack
What narratives and framings does a blog post or “visualization tool” serve? What does their overall work? What’s their recurring ideological slant?
Could be wholesome and altruistic. Or it could be something else.
Someone can be an honest ideologue (useful idiot) without being directly funded by someone shady.