- Imprint: Vintage
- ISBN: 9781529939149
- Length: 336 pages
- Price: £12.99
After the Spike
The Risks of Global Depopulation and the Case for People
GuardianPersuasive ... After the Spike knocks down assumptions like skittles … Creating a good life, whether that's finding cures for disease or ways to reverse environmental damage, relies on the ideas, work and progress produced by large, interconnected societies … If there's one thing After the Spike leaves us with, it's the impulse to back ourselves
New ScientistIf you think that the world’s population isn’t going to fall, or that it will be easy to halt its fall, or that a falling population is a good thing, you really should read it
Literary ReviewWe should welcome After the Spike. It is a brisk and accessible outline of the basic facts of the demographic precipice on the edge of which mankind currently stands
ObserverAfter the Spike provides a clear and comprehensively argued overview of why birth rates are so low, and why most government interventions have failed to raise them
Sunday TimesA punchy read
Daniel H. Pink, author of DriveWith stunning clarity, Spears and Geruso show why our assumptions about population, progress and prosperity are leading us astray. If you want to understand where humanity is going, and why that matters, this book is essential reading
Simon Johnson, Nobel Laureate in EconomicsFascinating, thoughtful and timely. In ten years, everyone will be talking about global demographic decline and what to do about it
Hannah Ritchie, author of Not the End of the WorldSpears and Geruso take us by the hand to understand the most dramatic period of human history – and what could happen next. The insights and rigour – which come thick and fast – are matched by human and empathetic narrative throughout
Zach Weinersmith, co-author of A City on MarsSpears and Geruso meticulously take apart all the myths and confusion surrounding the incoming demographic changes for our species. I had my mind blown over and over and over
Peter Singer, author of Animal LiberationA remarkable blend of empirical research and philosophical argument that has challenged, and changed, my thinking about population
About Dean Spears
Dean Spears and Michael Geruso are economists, demographers and associate professors at the University of Texas at Austin. Spears is a founding executive director of r.i.c.e, a nonprofit that works to promote children’s health, growth and survival in rural India. Geruso served as a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers under President Biden, where he advised on healthcare and population change. Their research on health, population, and climate change has been published in top peer-reviewed journals and featured in publications such as The New York Times, Economist and National Geographic.
About Michael Geruso
Dean Spears and Michael Geruso are economists, demographers and associate professors at the University of Texas at Austin. Spears is a founding executive director of r.i.c.e, a nonprofit that works to promote children’s health, growth and survival in rural India. Geruso served as a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers under President Biden, where he advised on healthcare and population change. Their research on health, population, and climate change has been published in top peer-reviewed journals and featured in publications such as The New York Times, Economist and National Geographic.
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