ProgressA new understanding of history Danny Dorling, author of Inequality and the 1% This is a wise book Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature 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 planets 4. 5 billion year history. The idea of progress has