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315. The World is Not Ending | Bjørn Lomborg

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Limits to Growth Petri Dish Model of Human Catastrophe

The idea that there are too many people on the planet is predicated on, you might say data. People say follow the science. The science is malthusian. We're all microorganisms in a petri dish or rats in a colony. We're going to overpopulate till we devour everything. That's not justified by science and 99% of scientists don't believe it. There's no reason to assume that the limits to growth petri dish model of human catastrophe is the appropriate biological metaphor.

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