Progress – How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It
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Name: Progress – How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It
Format: epub
Size: 1.31 MB
Book:
Title: Progress
Author: Samuel Miller McDonald
Language: English
Year: 2025
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 1250278317
Total pages: 304 str.
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‘A spirited skewering of the idea that things can only get better’ The Guardian ‘A new understanding of our past’ Danny Dorling, author of Inequality and the 1% ________________________________ Progress is power. But our modern story of progress is a very dangerous fiction. In the pursuit of progress, of growth and expansion, we have levelled cities, flattened mountains, charted the globe and ushered in a new geological epoch unique in our planet’s 4.5-billion-year history. The idea of progress has compelled societies toward exploration, invention, and grandiosity on one hand, and on the other, genocide, slavery, ecocide, and conquest: it is the root of our civilization’s success, as well as its looming demise. Geographer Samuel Miller McDonald offers a radical new perspective on the myth upon which the modern world is built, illuminating its blood-strewn lineage and suggesting an urgent alternative. He traces the history of how human societies broke from their pasts, broke from…
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