After the SpikeDean Spears, Mike Geruso
After the Spike
by Dean Spears, Mike Geruso · first published 2025
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For anyone interested in really digging deep into this trend, I recommend picking up the book “After the Spike” by Dylan Spears and Michael Geruso. It opened my eyes to the mathematical inevitability of short-term population contraction. Seriously, there is no way to avoid short term population contraction at…
on “India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world” ↗…be uniquely positioned as an immigration destination to weather the storm of rapid depopulation better than other countries if it continued its status as an immigration center. Recommended reading: After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People Or really any other book on the subject, I'm not married to that one, it's not a perfect book it's just one that's easy to find because of the distinctive…
on “Green Card Seekers Must Leave U.S. to Apply, Trump Administration Says” ↗One of the authors, Dean Spears, is the director of the Population Wellbeing Initiative at UT Austin. This is funded by Elon Musk. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/After-the-Spike/Dean-... https://x.com/josheidelson/status/1804220475108921458 | https://archive.today/FtxTq https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-elon-musk-population... | https://archive.today/dm0gm https://sites.utexas.edu/pwi/
on “Depopulation Won't Change the World for the Better” ↗…mentioned by the author, Dean Spears, is the director of the Population Wellbeing Initiative at UT Austin. This is funded by Elon Musk without being disclosed. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/After-the-Spike/Dean-... https://x.com/josheidelson/status/1804220475108921458 | https://archive.today/FtxTq https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-elon-musk-population... | https://archive.today/dm0gm https://sites.utexas.edu/pwi/
on “The Depopulation Bomb, Two Economists Make the Case for Humans” ↗