NATIONAL BESTSELLERWhat if the challenge for humanity’s future is not too many people on a crowded planet, but too few people to sustain the progress that the world needs?Most people on Earth today live in a country where birth rates already are too low to stabilize the population: fewer than two children for every two adults. In After the Spike, economists Dean Spears and Michael Geruso sound a wakeup call, explai...

An eye-opening exploration of humanity’s unprecedented path to global depopulation and why it's in everyone's interests to prevent it.'Stunning … essential reading' DANIEL H. PINK, author of DriveIf we continue as we are, the world’s population will peak in the next few decades – and then begin a sudden, rapid decline. It would be easy to think that fewer people would be better: better for the planet, better for the people who rema...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERWhat if the challenge for humanity’s future is not too many people on a crowded planet, but too few people to sustain the progress that the world needs?Most people on Earth today live in a country where birth rates already are too low to stabilize the population: fewer than two children for every two adults. In After the Spike, economists Dean Spears and Michael Geruso sound a wakeup call, explai...

**Brought to you by Penguin.An eye-opening exploration of humanity’s unprecedented path to global depopulation and why it's in everyone's interests to prevent it**IIf we continue as we are, with birth rates falling globally, the world’s human population will peak in the next few decades – and then begin a sudden and rapid decline. It would be easy to think that fewer people would be better: better for the planet, better for the people who remain. In After the Spike...