No One Left, Paul Morland
No One Left, Paul Morland
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No One Left
Why the World Needs More Children

Author: Paul Morland

Narrator: Paul Morland

Unabridged: 6 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/04/2024


Synopsis

A 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, ballooning debt: what is currently happening in South Korea - which faces population decline of more than 85% within just two generations - threatens to engulf us all, and sooner than we think. In the developed world we may be able temporarily to stave off the worst of its effects with immigration, but many countries, including those the immigrants come from, will get old before they get rich.

No One Left charts this future, explains its causes and suggests what might be done. Unless we radically change our attitudes towards parenthood and embrace a new progressive pro-natalism, argues Morland, we face disaster.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alfred on March 27, 2025

A Good Coverage of the Coming Population Crash I thought this was much better than Empty Planet, another book about the drop in fertility rates across the globe. I still felt as though there was more to be said though. There are some suggestions as to why fertility has dropped in various counties, bu......more

Goodreads review by Gemma on September 23, 2024

I’m fascinated by demography, so when I saw this book reviewed in the press I purchased it immediately. However I didn’t particularly enjoy it and have been trying to put my finger on why. As a woman who has always been ambivalent about having children I’m probably its intended audience. However, Mo......more

Goodreads review by Ben on July 25, 2024

Time and again reading this book I felt the author was pointing out truths I had never thought of before, but which were proven by what I had empirically noticed. There were far more children around in the streets and parks when I was younger (not just in my baby boomer childhood but in my 20s and 3......more

Goodreads review by J on May 11, 2025

I read this book right after finishing “The Human Tide”. In this book he is outright pro-natalist whereas in The Human Tide he seemed to say that not only is low fertility an inevitability for every modernizing human population, but that it is desirable. In No One Left, we also get more up to date i......more

Goodreads review by Dean on February 03, 2025

The topic wasn’t new to me so I probably didn’t appreciate it as much as I should’ve, but I think the research and depth of study that the author has put into this book is really in depth and interesting. I would recommend it but I didn’t find it as gripping as I’d expected......more