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. I read the three books below just about a year ago, in February and March 2016. All three books concern really tough global questions such as poverty, population and the environment. They are all also more or less gloomy. The asterisks below represent the number of quotes from the each book (see further below) and here's the previous blog post about books I have read. *********************** Mike Davis ( Wikipedia ) is a scholar and I have had his book, " Planet of slums " (2006), on my radar for quite some time. This is one of those book I heard about and wanted to read, but that barely made it into my reading list after I managed to match it with a few other related books (below). This book fits right into the struggle where some pundits (e.g. Johan Norberg or Hans Rosling in a Swedish context) argue that things have and are getting better all the time, while other pundits points out that things are instead going in the wrong direction. This is a "wrong direc...