The Next Crisis - Danny Dorling X Oxford China Forum
PAST EVENT | 30 April 2025 17:00 - 30 April 2025 18:00
The Next Crisis - Professor Danny Dorling X Oxford China Forum
30th April 2025 | 5 - 6pm | Pichette Auditorium
Join us for an evening of timely reflection and intergenerational dialogue as the Oxford China Forum presents an exclusive event with renowned geographer and social commentator Professor Danny Dorling, introducing his latest book, The Next Crisis: And How to Survive It.
In a world shaped by uncertainty, Dorling offers a powerful and optimistic argument: our best hope lies in facing crisis head-on. Drawing on decades of research into inequality, demography, and global change, he explores the shape of what’s to come—and what we can do to prepare for it.
🗣️ The event features:
- A keynote talk by Professor Danny Dorling on the core arguments and insights behind The Next Crisis
- A dynamic student panel discussion, where young voices respond to Dorling’s ideas, fostering a unique intergenerational dialogue on the politics of crisis, hope, and future-building
Whether you're interested in social justice, climate change, economic inequality, or global futures, this event will offer rich food for thought and a chance to engage with one of the UK’s most thought-provoking public intellectuals.
The Next Crisis - a book by Danny Dorling
What the future looks like to most people. And what we can do about it.
Every month, surveys around the world ask people to tell them what they are really thinking. The results are at times reassuring, sometimes 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 research 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.
The Next Crisis - Danny Dorling X Oxford China Forum
PAST EVENT | 30 April 2025 17:00 - 30 April 2025 18:00
The Next Crisis - Professor Danny Dorling X Oxford China Forum
30th April 2025 | 5 - 6pm | Pichette Auditorium
Join us for an evening of timely reflection and intergenerational dialogue as the Oxford China Forum presents an exclusive event with renowned geographer and social commentator Professor Danny Dorling, introducing his latest book, The Next Crisis: And How to Survive It.
In a world shaped by uncertainty, Dorling offers a powerful and optimistic argument: our best hope lies in facing crisis head-on. Drawing on decades of research into inequality, demography, and global change, he explores the shape of what’s to come—and what we can do to prepare for it.
🗣️ The event features:
- A keynote talk by Professor Danny Dorling on the core arguments and insights behind The Next Crisis
- A dynamic student panel discussion, where young voices respond to Dorling’s ideas, fostering a unique intergenerational dialogue on the politics of crisis, hope, and future-building
Whether you're interested in social justice, climate change, economic inequality, or global futures, this event will offer rich food for thought and a chance to engage with one of the UK’s most thought-provoking public intellectuals.
The Next Crisis - a book by Danny Dorling
What the future looks like to most people. And what we can do about it.
Every month, surveys around the world ask people to tell them what they are really thinking. The results are at times reassuring, sometimes 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 research 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.