Slowdown. The End of the Great Acceleration?and Why It's Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives, Paperback - Danny Dorling

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The Earth has entered a new age--the Anthropocene--in which humans are the most powerful influence on global ecology. Since the mid-twentieth centu...

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