The heat is on, but there’s good news to celebrate this Earth Day
Today, April 22 is Earth Day, and if you’re reading this, we’re probably on the same page about the urgency of the climate crisis. It can be very easy to feel like your news feed is dominated by a seemingly endless string of bad news updates about how things are going from bad to worse – we know, it gets us too.
That said, one of the most important things you can do to fight the climate crisis is to talk about it. So, we wanted to share three great good news points grounded in cold, hard data that you can use to fuel a conversation with anyone you know who needs some help coming over to the green side.
The global-scale positive news below is sourced from Our World In Data – a leading non-profit think tank based out of the University of Oxford, whose mission is to publish the world’s research to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
This research by Hannah Ritchie at Our World In Data shows that the majority of people in every country support positive climate action, but this level of support is consistently underestimated by the public.
