Danny Dorling, and Sofie Furu discussing the Book Slowdown and the illusion of speed and growth in our society, an on-line talk held with SoCentral – nordisk inkubator for samfunnsinnovasjon, Oslo, Norway, May 20th 2020.
The rate of population growth is slowing – and it’s time for human activity to relax too. It’ll do our species so much good, says Danny Dorling.
As reported in the Financial Times; Le Monde; News Week Españo and many others, an open letter: Uniting Behind A People’s Vaccine Against COVID-19, May 14th 2020 signed by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Imran Khan, Cyril Ramaphosa and many others, organised by Oxfam:
Over the NHS fundraiser’s lifetime, inequality has dropped but shot back up again. After this crisis we must keep it down.
My father still remembers the H3N2 influenza pandemic of 1968 when over a million people died worldwide.
Humanity has been here before, facing what appeared to be an imminent end (figure). The rise in nuclear weapons was rapid, from the first two used on Aug 6 and Aug 9, 1945, through to 10,000 held by 1960, almost 40,000 in 1970, and peaking at over 60,000 in the mid-1980s. At the time, it…
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On April 7, The Conversation published three graphs showing the rise of deaths from COVID-19 in seven countries. This is an update 20 days later.
Danny Dorling giving a short keynote at the British Sociological Association Annual Conference (on-line in a time of Covid19) on April 24th 2020.
Danny Dorling giving the final talk at the Geographical Association annual conference (on-line), on April 18th 2020
This article is republished from The Conversation – first published April 7th 2020
“But once this is done, there must be complete transparency about how the NHS came to be left in this exposed position, how social care had been stripped away, and how those in power will be held accountable.”
A message for A-Level geographers: Suddenly you have time on your hands. You would have been spending these weeks and months memorising facts for regurgitating.
We need to quickly accept that this is an era of slowdown, not fast-paced change.
For some time this pandemic will focus almost all of our attention. It is a tragedy that will play out differently
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,