Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration-and… by Danny Dorling · Audiobook preview

Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration-and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives
Authored by Danny Dorling
Narrated by Liam Gerrard

0:00 Intro
0:03 Chapter 1. To Worry: Imaginatively
34:25 Chapter 2. The Slowing Down: Of Almost Everything
1:13:09 Outro

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BOOK DESCRIPTION

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 strides in progress that have defined recent history also brought with them widespread warfare, divided societies, and massive inequality.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Liam Gerrard is an award-winning voice artist with over ten years of experience working in every field of the voice industry, as well as a highly acclaimed stage and screen actor. A 2017 Audie Award nominee, he has narrated over thirty audiobooks in a wide range of genres and styles.

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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS

Language: English
Publisher: Tantor Media Inc
Published on: May 19, 2020
ISBN: 9781705219263
Duration: 12 hr, 11 min
Genres: Business & Economics / Economic History, Business & Economics / General, History / General, History / Modern / 21st Century, History / Modern / General, Social Science / General, Social Science / Sociology / General