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Hannah Ritchie: ‘Doomsday predictions are a dream for climate deniers’ (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Some context here: she works for Our World in Data, which is Hans Rosling's organisation (edit: I'm wrong, see below). 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.