Slowdown - The End of the Great Acceleration - and Why It`s a Good Thing: The End of the Great Acceleration – and Why It's Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives - Softcover

Dorling, Danny; Mcclure, Kirsten

 
9780300257960: Slowdown - The End of the Great Acceleration - and Why It`s a Good Thing: The End of the Great Acceleration – and Why It's Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives
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ISBN 10: 0300257961 ISBN 13: 9780300257960
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

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 visualizations 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 civilization 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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300257961
ISBN 13 
9780300257960
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416
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