Are we all doomed? A lot of publishers seem to think so. The only question, it sometimes seems, is whether it's going to be climate change, another pandemic, or murderous Terminator-style Artificial Intelligence that finishes us off first.
But a handful of new books seem determined to look on the bright side. First among them is Hannah Ritchie's (Chatto & Windus, 352pp, £20). Ritchie is a data-scientist, and the argument of her book is that, contra
