“Announcing our book, After the Spike, and an Opportunity to Help” by deanspears

Summary

• My new book with Mike Geruso on global depopulation, After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People, will be released this summer.
• If you’re here reading this, we bet you’re going to like the book. If you’d like to help others find their way to the book, preorders now are the best way to help. Preorders give an important market signal to booksellers and help books rise to wider attention via bestseller lists.
• You can preorder here: Amazon | Books-A-Million | Bookshop.org

About the book

After the Spike envisions, and is written to promote, an abundant future where people collaborate, give, and innovate to make lives better, longer, healthier, safer, and happier than they otherwise would be. It is concerned both with the wellbeing of the global poor today and with the long-term flourishing of humanity.

For decades, many have claimed that fewer people would be better—better for [...]

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Outline:

(00:45) About the book

(03:15) If you would like to help

(04:36) What some friends and colleagues have said about the book:

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First published:

April 7th, 2025

Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/iFkm6EbGRyCQSA8hv/announcing-our-book-after-the-spike-and-an-opportunity-to

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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