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



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 stead...