Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Chapter 1 To Worry: Imaginatively 1
Chapter 2 The Slowing Down: Of Almost Everything 16
Chapter 3 Debt: A Decelerating Sign of the Slowdown 37
Chapter 4 Data: The Deluge of Less and Less That Is New 64
Chapter 5 Climate: industry, War, Carbon, and Chaos 89
Chapter 6 Temperature: The Catastrophic Exception 120
Chapter 7 Demographics: Hitting the Population Brakes 140
Chapter 8 Fertility: The Greatest Slowdown of All Time 180
Chapter 9 Economics: Stabilizing Standards of Living 230
Chapter 10 Geopolitics: In an Age of Slowdown 262
Chapter 11 Life: After the Great Acceleration 287
Chapter 12 People: Coalition and Catfish 314
Appendix: How to Read and Draw a Timeline 333
Notes 339
List of Figures and Tables 371
Index 375