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284. Superabundance: The Age of Plenty | Marian Tupy, Gale Pooley

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Is There a Better Way to Live Than to Exist?

Malthusian doctrine is that, well you shouldn't be exercising your agency because you're just part of the world destroying force and so it'd be better for the planet if you didn't exist. But I think the pendulum is swinging back at least a little bit according to our data. We have to start calling, calling our fellow human beings. If there are too many people on the planet why isn’t the moral thing to do? Well, man, if there are too much people we face an apocalypse as a result.

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