What 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?
Punchy ... Convincing ... This is not the book I expected ... This book shies away from coming up with concrete solutions but as the authors make clear there are many reasons why we should fear a depopulated future ... If I have one quibble with After the Spike it’s that it underplays humanity’s problem-solving abilities and exaggerates the immediacy of the problem.
These ideas will challenge or even frustrate readers ... But, without blinking, Spears and Geruso have started an essential conversation on how humans might realistically address the vexing challenges of population change.
