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295. Marian Tupy & Gale Pooley — Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet

The Michael Shermer Show

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Is More People Good or Bad?

Since the sixties, w've all been hearing that more people is bad. What's wrong with that argument? A, i've been talking too much. I feel like a a gale can go ahead. But basically, look a human beings, a on average, contribute more. They create more value than they consume. If you want innovations, you need ideas. And so it is not surprising to us that this period of great enrichment was happening at the same time as the world population was exploding.

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