Hannah Ritchie is a data scientist at the University of Oxford. Her book “Hope for the Desperate” has just been published.

Ritchie sees hope for the future of the planet in the data she evaluates. She also sees a positive trend in the gradual withdrawal of the internal combustion engine. But even though she knows all this, sometimes it still feels wrong, says Ritchie, who advocates for a low-carbon lifestyle and a meat-free diet.. A machine is taking over his job on a tulip farm in the Netherlands. Using artificial intelligence, the robot recognizes which of the flowers carry the so-called tulip breaking virus.