Paul Morland’s No One Left makes a case for controversial pronatalism to save our imperilled planet

Non-fiction

Paul Morland says while the world’s population is ­growing, its rate of growth has halved since the 1970s. Stock image

Frieda Klotz

​The world’s ­population has been surging for decades, tripling since the mid-twentieth ­century and currently topping eight billion. Over the next 30 years, the UN expects it to increase by another two billion.

In this context, the concerns articulated by Paul Morland in No One Left can seem odd. The need for people to keep ­having children is urgent, he writes, ­“because of the ­impending ­collapse of populations in ­community after community”.