Danny Dorling on Our Remarkable Era of Slowdown

Published: Dec. 17, 2020, 5 a.m.

Danny Dorling, author of the book \u201cSlowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration\u2014and Why It\u2019s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives\u201d and the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford, talks with us about geography as a means to understand culture; how and why, despite our sped-up modern lives, the world has been in a global slowdown since the late 1960s; and the ways in which this slowdown illuminates women\u2019s aptitude for leadership.