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On decline : stagnation, nostalgia, and why every year is the worst one ever / Andrew Potter.

by Potter, Andrew.

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Biblioasis, 2021.

Civilization, Western -- 21st century.

Regression (Civilization)

Field notes (Biblioasis) ; #3.

9781771963947 (pbk.)

125 p. ; 20 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

"The death of David Bowie in January 2016 was a bad start to a year that got a lot worse: war in Syria, the ZIka virus, terrorists attacks in Brussels and Nice, the Brexit vote -- and the election of Donald Trump. The end-of-year wraps declared 2016 'the worst...ever.' Four even more troubling years later, the question of our apocalypse had devolved into a tired social media cliché. But when COVID-19 hit, journalist and professor of public policy Andrew Potter started to wonder: what if The End isn't one big event, but a long series of smaller ones? In 'On Decline,' Potter surveys the current problems and likely future of Western civilization (spoiler: it's not great). Economic stagnation and the slowing of scientific innovation. Falling birth rates and environmental degradation. The devastating effects of cultural nostalgia and the havoc wereaked by social media on public discourse. Most acutely, the various failure of Western governments in their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. If the legacy of the Enlightenment and its virtues: reason, logic, science, evidence has run its course, how and why has it happened? And where do we go from here?" --Back cover.

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