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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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The Difference Between the Biological and the Economic Way of Thinking

Human beings are way above any other species in terms of our ability to innovate. It's the difference between the biological way of thinking and an economic way of thinking. The dutch were able to dry one third of holland at a time when they had a much more primitive technology, and when they were poorer than the people of banglardes are today. A consider something very simple as a rising sea levels. Sea levels are rising at a slow pae, but they are rising. But people who are worried about the world being inundated by water simply assume that we are going to be standing in place for hundreds of thousands of years. That's not how human beings operate.

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