Every month surveys around the world ask people to tell them what they are really thinking.
The results are at times reassuring some-times chilling and often unexpected. In The Next
Crisis leading UK geographer Danny Dorling unpacks polling data and shows that our global
crises are often very different from what’s in the headlines – and that we need to take these
issues very seriously. Dorling explores our main concerns about the world in order of urgency.
What the cost of living shows us about inequality. How the connection between employment and
immigration is used to stir up insecurity. Why we are frightened by distant wars. How
corruption corrodes care. What we should really be worried about when it comes to climate
change – including what the scientists get wrong about people’s fears. And finally how the
great ‘unknown unknowns’ dictate the way we think about the future and what we should be less
afraid of: pandemics asteroids tsunamis even each other. The Next Crisis uses the most
up-to-date re-search to redraw our assumptions about where our greatest threats come from.
Dorling offers a series of solutions for tackling or at the very least coming to terms with
our uncertain future.
