'Highly readable ... Everything we need to know on this subject' Financial Times'Fascinating' Geographical Magazine'A must read for anyone wanting to understand the forces shaping our world' Eliza Filby'A compelling argument for having more children' New StatesmanA population calamity is unfolding before our eyes. It started in parts of the developed world and is spreading to the four corners of the globe. There are just too few babies being born for humanity to replace itself.Leading demographer Paul Morland argues that the consequences of this promise to be calamitous. Labour shortages, pensions crises and ballooning debt threaten to engulf us all, and sooner than we think. Unless we radically change our attitudes towards parenthood and embrace a new progressive pro-natalism, argues Morland, we face disaster.