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Slowdown
The End of the Great Acceleration - and Why It's a Good Thing
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Slowdown is ideal for readers interested in global trends, societal change, economics, and technology. It appeals to those who appreciate data-driven arguments and are open to fresh perspectives on progress and development. Students, academics, policy makers, and informed general readers will find this a compelling and relevant analysis.
A powerful and counterintuitive argument that we should welcome the current slowdown—of population growth, economies, and technological innovation
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A powerful and counterintuitive argument that we should welcome the current slowdown—of population growth, economies, and technological innovation.
The end of our high-growth world was underway well before COVID-19 arrived. In this powerful and timely argument, Danny Dorling demonstrates the benefits of a larger, ongoing societal slowdown.
Drawing from an incredibly rich trove of global data, this groundbreaking book reveals that human progress has been slowing down since the early 1970s. Danny Dorling uses compelling visualisations to illustrate how fertility rates, growth in GDP per person, and even the frequency of new social movements have all steadily declined over the last few generations.
Perhaps most surprising of all is the fact that even as new technologies frequently reshape our everyday lives and are widely believed to be propelling our civilisation into new and uncharted waters, the rate of technological progress is also rapidly dropping. Rather than lament this turn of events, Dorling embraces it as a moment of promise and a move toward stability, and he notes that many of the older great strides in progress that have defined recent history also brought with them widespread warfare, divided societies, and massive inequality.
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Critics praise Slowdown for its engaging and thought-provoking analysis. Iain Macwhirter of the Herald highlights Dorling's effective debunking of claims about relentless acceleration in society. The Morning Star Online calls it an engrossing read with a positive outlook for the planet's future. Nick Smith from Engineering & Technology finds the statistical backing fascinating, while Money Week regards the book’s provocative argument as well worth reading. Victoria White of the Irish Examiner also commends Dorling's convincing case linking population slowdown to global development.
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ISBN: 9780300257960
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 12 January 2021
Country: United States
Imprint: Yale University Press
Edition: Updated Edition
Illustration: 67 b-w illus.
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Kirsten McClure
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 27.0mm
Width: 127.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 416
About the Author
Danny Dorling is the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford. His previous books include Inequality and the 1% and The Equality Effect.
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