Thursday, Jan 15

Welcome to Your Daily Dot where Dot will share tips, advice, and stories on how we can make our world better.

Dear Reader,

Hannah Ritchie, who spends her days number crunching in order to better understand our world (and is the author of Not the End of the World), is bullish on humanity’s ability to address climate change. Why such optimism? Ritchie considers all the ways in which humans have already made our world so much better, providing loads of info about the ways in which we’ve reduced poverty, improved child mortality, extended lifespans (and increased happiness), secured more democracy around the world, and much more. 

So if you’ve entered this new year feeling like things only ever get worse, let Hannah Ritchie change your mind.

Hopefully,

Dot

What if a film could leave us not only inspired, but ready to take action for the planet? This week, acclaimed producer Adam Leipzig — the former National Geographic Films president behind March of the Penguins and A Plastic Ocean — joins the new Bluedot Living podcast, Imagine If, to share how storytelling turns climate overwhelm into collective action. We talk urgency, optimism, and the small “micro actions” that spark real change.

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