After the Spike

An eye-opening exploration of humanity’s unprecedented path to global depopulation – and why it’s in everyone's interests to prevent it.‘Knocks down assumption like skittles’ GUARDIAN‘Stunning … Essential reading’ DANIEL H. PINK‘Helps us understand this most dramatic period in human history – and what could happen next’ HANNAH RITCHIEWhat kind of future do we want?If we continue as we are, the world’s population will peak within decades – and then suddenly, rapidly decline. It is easy to assume this would be better, for both the planet and those who remain. After the Spike urges us to think again.In this deeply reasoned and empathetic look at our shrinking world, leading economists Dean Spears and Michael Geruso explain why fewer people make it harder to escape global poverty, disease and injustice – leaving us all worse off. But if we lift the burdens on parents and carers, stabilising the population will go hand in hand with a freer, fairer, healthier and greener world for everyone.The spike may be coming, but what the world looks like after is still ours to choose. ‘You really should read this’ NEW SCIENTIST‘Fascinating, thoughtful and timely’ SIMON JOHNSON‘Dissolves our preconceptions about population through evidence, rigour and a deep compassion for all’ TOBY ORD