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Bonus: Damon Binder on Economic History and the Future of Physics

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Is Life Expectancy Going Down With These Early States?

Population will grow if there are resources to feed people, animals. Eventually populations stop growing because the death rate and birth rate reach equilibrium. Having better technology means usually that you have more people, but you don't have better quality lives. People can make conscious choices to limit population growth.

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