Slowdown the end of the great acceleration - and why it's good for the planet, the economy, and our lives
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...
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New Haven ; London
Yale University Press
2020, ©2020
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Table of Contents:
- To worry: Imaginatively
- The slowing down: Of almost everything
- Debt: A decelerating sign of the slowdown
- Data: The deluge of less and less that is new
- Climate: Industry, war, carbon, and chaos
- Temperature: The catastrophic exception
- Demographics: Hitting the population brakes
- Fertility: The greatest slowdown of all time
- Economics: Stabilizing standards of living
- Geopolitics: In an age of slowdown
- Life: After the greatest acceleration
- People: Cognition and catfish