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Slowdown : the end of the great acceleration-- and why it's a good thing / Danny Dorling ; illustrations by Kirsten McClure

Dorling, Daniel, 1968- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

McClure, Kirsten [Illustration]

Updated paperback edition

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2021]

x, 404 Seiten : Diagramme ; 20 cm

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-390) and index

0-300-25796-1 (paperback); 978-0-300-25796-0 (paperback)

2020947077

OCoLC: 1422015547     

HM891

303.44     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Regression (Civilization) -- History -- 21st century ; Progress -- History -- 20th century ; Progress -- History -- 21st century ; Regression (Civilization) -- History -- 20th century

Progress ; Regression (Civilization) ; History

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 -- Pandemic.

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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