The Next Crisis

Every month, surveys around the world ask people to tell them what they are really thinking. The results are at times reassuring, sometimes chilling, and often unexpected. In The Next Crisis, leading UK geographer Danny Dorling unpacks polling data and shows that our global crises are often very different from what's in the headlines – and that we need to take these issues very seriously.

Dorling explores our main concerns about the world in order of urgency. He examines what the cost of living shows us about inequality, how the connection between employment and immigration is used to stir up insecurity, and why we are frightened by distant wars. Additionally, he discusses how corruption corrodes care, what we should really be worried about when it comes to climate change, and what scientists might get wrong about people's fears. Dorling also considers how the great 'unknown unknowns' dictate the way we think about the future, suggesting what we should be less afraid of, such as pandemics, asteroids, tsunamis, and even each other.

The Next Crisis uses the most up-to-date research to redraw our assumptions about where our greatest threats come from. Dorling offers a series of solutions for tackling, or at the very least coming to terms with, our uncertain future.