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153. Rational Optimism | Matt Ridley
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Are You Taking Flack?
In the nineteen sixties, biologists were absolutely certain that we were all going to perish of starvation. And that hasn't happened. There's been a sixty eight per cent reduction in the amount of land needed to produce a given quantity of food. It's basicaly the story of the green revolution. We would have already used up land space equivalent to more than the entire amazonian rain forest if it had not taken place.
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