Progress : A History of Humanity's Worst Idea - Samuel Miller McDonald Paperback / softback it becomes clear that the

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Progress : A History of Humanity's Worst Idea - Samuel Miller McDonald Paperback / softback it becomes clear that theA 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.