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Do These 12 Things First If You Want a Bright Future | Bjorn Lomborg PT 2

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory

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The Importance of Less People

Do you believe the world is fundamentally better off with less people? All right so I just want to answer the other part or comment on the other part. In 1820 it's estimated that 90% of everyone living on the planet were below a dollar a day and today we've basically gone from a world where 90% were poor to a world where 92 or 3% are not poor. We're seeing that many rich countries today not in the US still because you're having a lot of people immigrate into the US but you know for instance Japan Russia very clearly although Russia is sort of an outline so many other ways.

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