Thank you very much, Hannah, for your fantastic work! I think you are doing a great service to the sustainability movement by making this change! So I am already looking forward to see a broader mix of topics and maybe get a different perspective on some other topic as I may not have thought about the impact of making a certain change on some group in society or another aspect of the problem.
Have a great time over the holidays, Hannah and followers of this substack!
Brilliant idea, look forward to the year ahead, US health policies and the potential to adversely affect us all would be a great start, we all need to be aware of what they’re doing - many thanks for all you do
Gracias Hannah! Agree w/your broad definition + both applaud and thank you for offering your thoughtful insights freely! Wishing you a very happy holiday and all the best for 2026!
Great! I occasionally find myself in debates with ‘green scam’ types over whether the two main human forces of the past two thousand years, market forces and state forces, are natural forces. They are not even though both have profound consequences for nature. The climate change and lost bio diversity and the rolling loss of forests cut down for charcoal about which you have kept us informed so clearly. And the profound health consequences. More children’s lives lost due to charcoal fumes than any disease or malnutrition. As we know only too well, extracting and selling oil and gas remains highly profitable for BP and the big 4. Gazprom and Aramco continue to fund the Russian and Saudi Arabian states. The FDLR still produces charcoal in the forests of the Virunga park, and it’s still sold in the markets of Goma under the watchful eyes of their enemies the M23. Markets and states supply our demands. They are our two most powerful creations. They make use of but they are not driven fundamentally by another of our greatest creations - science. Our world in data. The great challenge we face is how to make markets and states responsive to the environmental imperatives observed data reveals when their main drivers are not. I feel your need to branch out. It is brilliant that battery and PV costs have crashed, that copper is plentiful enough to build grids and we have the tech for the energy, transport and farming transitions. But the profit that drives the extraction of minerals and the movement of people and stuff around the world and the power that comes from winning votes or controlling a security apparatus remain stubbornly detached from carbon concentrations in the atmosphere. Data does not move that dial. So I commend your decision.
Thanks for your work. Our world in data is one of my most visited and referenced websites
I’ll be interested to see more data and analysis of global health, and particularly if and how signs of progress vs decline in health outcomes emerge (as a result of changes to environmental / social determinants of health / rising inequality) - I am fairly convinced we will see accelerating reversal in longevity and other health metrics as a consequence of these
Thank you, Hannah, for all the interesting and enlightening articles this year. I am very much looking forward to you branching out towards new topics, since I believe that your data-led lense can shed light on important developments in fields of all kind. This is the kind of content I love to subscribe for. Bonus kudos for your decision to keep the Substack free, even though you could clearly find paying subscribers.
Thank you Hannah. This is definitely the right evolution to make. As you rightly point out sustainability is much broader than environmental issues, important though these are. Here at Wylde Connections we spend a lot of our time with clients helping them to understand this. The messaging from government and in the media hasn't helped with its "carbon tunnel vision" and this has been a great disservice to businesses, especially those that genuinely want to have positive impacts across all aspects of sustainability instead of just being less bad. I welcome the changes you are making and I hope all your subscribers see the value in you broadening the subject material. It's definitely what's needed right now. You are one of the credible sources of information and I regularly point clients in your direction because of this.
I look forward to reading your articles this coming year. And thank you for all the great work you do.
Thank you very much, Hannah, for your fantastic work! I think you are doing a great service to the sustainability movement by making this change! So I am already looking forward to see a broader mix of topics and maybe get a different perspective on some other topic as I may not have thought about the impact of making a certain change on some group in society or another aspect of the problem.
Have a great time over the holidays, Hannah and followers of this substack!
Brilliant idea, look forward to the year ahead, US health policies and the potential to adversely affect us all would be a great start, we all need to be aware of what they’re doing - many thanks for all you do
Gracias Hannah! Agree w/your broad definition + both applaud and thank you for offering your thoughtful insights freely! Wishing you a very happy holiday and all the best for 2026!
Great! I occasionally find myself in debates with ‘green scam’ types over whether the two main human forces of the past two thousand years, market forces and state forces, are natural forces. They are not even though both have profound consequences for nature. The climate change and lost bio diversity and the rolling loss of forests cut down for charcoal about which you have kept us informed so clearly. And the profound health consequences. More children’s lives lost due to charcoal fumes than any disease or malnutrition. As we know only too well, extracting and selling oil and gas remains highly profitable for BP and the big 4. Gazprom and Aramco continue to fund the Russian and Saudi Arabian states. The FDLR still produces charcoal in the forests of the Virunga park, and it’s still sold in the markets of Goma under the watchful eyes of their enemies the M23. Markets and states supply our demands. They are our two most powerful creations. They make use of but they are not driven fundamentally by another of our greatest creations - science. Our world in data. The great challenge we face is how to make markets and states responsive to the environmental imperatives observed data reveals when their main drivers are not. I feel your need to branch out. It is brilliant that battery and PV costs have crashed, that copper is plentiful enough to build grids and we have the tech for the energy, transport and farming transitions. But the profit that drives the extraction of minerals and the movement of people and stuff around the world and the power that comes from winning votes or controlling a security apparatus remain stubbornly detached from carbon concentrations in the atmosphere. Data does not move that dial. So I commend your decision.
I’m definitely staying. I really appreciate your work. Happy Christmas and good luck in the New Year.
Thanks for your work. Our world in data is one of my most visited and referenced websites
I’ll be interested to see more data and analysis of global health, and particularly if and how signs of progress vs decline in health outcomes emerge (as a result of changes to environmental / social determinants of health / rising inequality) - I am fairly convinced we will see accelerating reversal in longevity and other health metrics as a consequence of these
Thank you, Hannah, for all the interesting and enlightening articles this year. I am very much looking forward to you branching out towards new topics, since I believe that your data-led lense can shed light on important developments in fields of all kind. This is the kind of content I love to subscribe for. Bonus kudos for your decision to keep the Substack free, even though you could clearly find paying subscribers.
Very excited for the new topics. Can't really imagine it making a real dent in your subscriber curve.
Thank you Hannah. This is definitely the right evolution to make. As you rightly point out sustainability is much broader than environmental issues, important though these are. Here at Wylde Connections we spend a lot of our time with clients helping them to understand this. The messaging from government and in the media hasn't helped with its "carbon tunnel vision" and this has been a great disservice to businesses, especially those that genuinely want to have positive impacts across all aspects of sustainability instead of just being less bad. I welcome the changes you are making and I hope all your subscribers see the value in you broadening the subject material. It's definitely what's needed right now. You are one of the credible sources of information and I regularly point clients in your direction because of this.
I look forward to reading your articles this coming year. And thank you for all the great work you do.
Thank you for your work! I suspect you won't lose many subscribers, if any, people want to read about the topics you find interesting/important!
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