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Slowdown

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

by Danny Dorling
Kirsten McClure
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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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    March 31, 2020

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      • ISBN: 9780300252408

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      • ISBN: 9780300252408
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    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      April 24, 2020

      Dorling (geography, Oxford; Inequality & The 1%; Population 10 Billion) contends that global population growth is slowing. He explains the impact that this slowdown will have on the human psyche, the environment, and the economy. To illustrate slower growth, he includes over 60 intricate time lines plotting trends with loops, spirals, and even coiling snakes. He uses them to show that growth is decelerating in areas including fertility, life expectancy, average adult height, debt, information accumulation, technical innovation, and GDP. Dorling goes beyond describing the slowdown to recommend ways of achieving a more equitable and sustainable society. He proffers that the slowdown will offer an unhurried lifestyle with better work-life balance, but that it has so far had a marginal effect on CO2 emissions and the rise in global temperatures that directly impact ecosystem destruction. His discussion of plagues and pandemics is timely. VERDICT Dorling's thought-provoking findings, fears, and hopes for the future are an excellent introduction for both students and a wider audience interested in the consequences of shifting demographics.--Lawrence Maxted, Gannon Univ. Lib., Erie, PA

      Copyright 2020 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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