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Paul Ehrlich: “Was the Population Bomb Defused?”

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

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Do You Have a Plan to Stop the Population From Declining?

In 1968, we peaked at 2.1% growth per year and now we're down to 1%. And countries like South Korea are down to 0.8%. There's a lot of panic today in various places about declining birth rates,. changing age structure in a population. The only way you can avoid the problem of a shift towards an older population is to keep the population growing forever.

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