Notes on Progress: An environmentalist gets lunch

Why being an effective environmentalist can often feel like being a bad one

Notes on Progress is a new diary-style format from Works in Progress. In this issue, Hannah Ritchie writes about how counterintuitive it can be to be an effective environmentalist. If you enjoy it, please share it on social media or by forwarding it to anyone you think might find it interesting. My charts might be plastered across posters about the environment, but I’ll never be a poster girl for environmental action. Watching me make a meal looks like an environmental travesty. I almost exclusively use the microwave. I don’t take time to savour the process: a meal that takes longer than…

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