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

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 movemen...