A new book, Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline could upend our thinking about the future of planet Earth with far-reaching implications for policy on climate change, immigration and border control, defence, education, child care, AI and jobs, to name just a few. In the face of Hollywood’s habitual dystopianism we have become inculcated with familiar mantras: we are facing a global population crisis, humans are a plague on the planet, we are poisoning the Earth and so on. These mantras are wrong. Not just wrong; diametrically wrong, according to the book’s Canadian authors, Darrell Bricker, CEO of…