Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration—and Why It&#39;s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives

Danny Dorling

Published by Yale University Press 2020

Slowdown

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

Danny Dorling
Illustrator: Kirsten McClure

https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300252408

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About this book

A powerful and counterintuitive argument that we should welcome the current slowdown—of population growth, economies, and technological innovation

Author / Editor information

Dorling Danny :

Danny Dorling is the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford, UK. His previous books include Inequality and the 1% and The Equality Effect. With others, he created the website Worldmapper.org, a digital collection of demographic maps. He lives in Oxford, UK.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
1. To worry Imaginatively Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. The Slowing Down Of Almost Everything Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
3. Debt A Decelerating Sign of the Slowdown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
4. Data The Deluge of Less and Less That Is New Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
5. Climate Industry, War, Carbon, and Chaos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
6. Temperature The Catastrophic Exception Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
7. Demographics Hitting the Population Brakes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
8. Fertility The Greatest Slowdown of All Time Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
9. Economics Stabilizing Standards of Living Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
10. Geopolitics In an Age of Slowdown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	262
11. Life After the Great Acceleration Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
12. People Cognition and Catfish Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	314
APPENDIX. HOW TO READ AND DRAW A TIMELINE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
FIGURES AND TABLES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375

Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages
- Main content: 384
Illustrations
- Other: 67 b-w illus.

eBook

Published: April 14, 2020
ISBN: 9780300252408