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American Institute for Economic Research

What century saw the greatest change in the Western world? Ian Mortimer

's 'Human Race: 10 Centuries of Change on Earth' walks us through one century at a time, beginning with the eleventh.

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The Times May Be A-Changing, But Which Times Changed the Most?

"Ultimately, Mortimer opts for the twentieth century as the century when the West saw the greatest change. This is a defensible conclusion, but it doesn’t matter much: the value of his...

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Thanks for this. In my defence, re: sustainability, the last ch. addresses the next 1000 yrs, so 1962 pop. growth rate is irrelevant. No guarantee pop. will ever decrease. The limit of land vs potential unlimited pop. led to my concluding warning, simply a mathematical reality.

6:40 PM · Jul 3, 2021

And like many supposedly "mathematical realities", it's completely wrong. See common UN stats or watch a lecture by

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No it's not. A potentially unlimited demand [for land] and a demonstrably limited supply, over the course of a thousand years, is patently precarious.

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