Empty Planet

**A SUNDAY TIMES MUST-READ**\'Riveting and vitally important\' - Steven Pinker\'A gripping narrative of a world on the cusp of profound change\' - Anjana Ahuja, New StatesmanEmpty Planet offers a radical, provocative argument that the global population will soon begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political and economic landscape.For half a century, statisticians, pundits and politicians have warned that a burgeoning planetary population will soon overwhelm the earth\'s resources.

But a growing number of experts are sounding a different kind of alarm.

Rather than growing exponentially, they argue, the global population is headed for a steep decline.