Episode 19: The Population Boom Could Save the World
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The Problem With Romanticizing the Past
The average life expectancy in the United States right now is about 83 years. If you actually lived in that time, there's a high probability to have your kids would have died from some disease before they reached age of five. The last thing I want to do is go out and cut a tree down so I could be warm in the wintertime. That's crazy. Some of the futurists now will tell you that if you can live another 30 years, you might live another 1000 years. And we try not to think about this, but this idea of romanticizing the past, I think, is dead on the money.
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