
Episode 5: Chapter 3, Part 2 "The Spark"
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The Moral Component of the Spaceship Earth
Malthus didn't realize that things can be done, and things are coming post thomas malthus. In particular, in the 19 hundreds, technology was found to create artificial fertilizers. We now have the knowledge of how to create more food with the same amount of land than we ever have before. There is something different about us. Other organisms, if the environment changes, they may go extinct. If the environment changes too much and too quickly for us, we will go extinct. That's why we have to create knowledge as fast as we possibly can. Having created it, we should use it to create technology which helps to sustain us,. To provide us with a spaceship earth
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