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Title details for Slowdown by Danny Dorling - Available

Slowdown

The End of the Great Acceleration-and Why It's Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives

by Danny Dorling
Liam Gerrard
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A powerful and counterintuitive argument that we should welcome the current slowdown—of population growth, economies, and technological innovation
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, increases in life expectancy, 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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  • Release date

    May 19, 2020

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781705219270
      • File size: 350822 KB
      • Duration: 12:10:52

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrating quickly and precisely, Liam Gerrard opens this audiobook with an overwhelming stream of statistics and charts. The complex material, combined with his rapid delivery, makes it hard, at first, for the author's focus to become clear. But it's a friendly performance, notable for Gerrard's beguiling mix of boyish charm and enthusiasm. As the audio unfolds and the author's purpose becomes clearer, Gerrard's delivery and even his pacing sound perfect for this kind of writing. The author, a professor of social geography, says rapid economic and population expansion is a sugar high that always slows and usually ends badly. With startling historical evidence, he describes the negative outcomes--war, famine, inequality, and social conflict--and charts an optimistic course for living within our planet's means. T.W. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine

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