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323. Unsettled: Climate and Science | Dr. Steven Koonin

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

CHAPTER

The Limits to Growth

Thomas Malthus wrote his famous essay on population and extinction in some real sense. He noted that in natural populations, there are often cycles of boom and bust. A population would expand until it consumed all of the available resources. That would be mostly food in the case of animals. And then having over-consumed would precipitously collapse.

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