Slowdown - The End of the Great Acceleration - and Why It's Good for the Planet, t...

kolman · 13.11.2020, 11:06

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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...

Category:21st Century World History, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Economic History

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