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153. Rational Optimism | Matt Ridley
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Is There a Melthehusian Catastrophe?
With a sensible assumption, we might not even get much past ten billion. I've spoken with a number of people about the possibilities of nuclear power. There are no shortage of plans for much smaller nuclear reactors that don't use water as the primary colent. And that if they a fail, they actually shot down rather than melting down. The environmentalists got things seriously wrong and are still doing so. If you want cheap power of the sort that would make people rich enough to start carrying about environment, it seems to me that you would be a nuclear power supporter.
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