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Paul Ehrlich: “Was the Population Bomb Defused?”

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

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Is There a Reset of Population?

"We have outsourced our decisions and planning to the market, which disallows any alternative paths of wisdom or constraint," he says. "I'm not sure that even if we were to have humane, logical, scientific strategies to gradually reduce human population ... it couldn't happen because of the imperative to grow monetary claims on physical resources." He asks: Can there ever be a reasonable discussion about the benefits of population limits or decline as long as we have GDP as our cultural goal?

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