Slowdown : the end of the great acceleration and why it's good for the planet, the economy, and our lives / Danny Dorling ; illustrations by Kirsten McClure.

Slowdown : the end of the great acceleration and why it's good for the planet, the economy, and our lives /

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dorling, Daniel (Author)
Other Authors: McClure, Kirsten (Illustrator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Progress.
Population.
Economic development.
Technology and civilization.
economic development.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • CHAPTER 1. To Worry: Imaginatively
  • CHAPTER 2. The Slowing Down: Of Almost Everything
  • CHAPTER 3. Debt: A Decelerating Sign of the Slowdown
  • CHAPTER 4. Data: The Deluge of Less and Less That is New
  • CHAPTER 5. Climate: Industry, War, Carbon, and Chaos
  • CHAPTER 6. Temperature: The Catastrophic Exception
  • CHAPTER 7. Demographics: Hitting the Population Brakes
  • CHAPTER 8. Fertility: The Greatest Slowdown of All Time
  • CHAPTER 9. Economics: Stabilizing Standards of Living
  • CHAPTER 10. Geopolitics: In an Age of Slowdown
  • CHAPTER 11. Life: After the Great Acceleration
  • CHAPTER 12. People: Cognition and Catfish
  • APPENDIX: How to Read and Draw a Timeline
  • NOTES
  • LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES
  • INDEX.

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