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Episode 19: The Population Boom Could Save the World

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Introduction

Malphus writes in 1798, so roughly right before 1800. He looks back at world population going back to zero or earlier. And he says, Oh my God, we're going to have mass starvation over the next couple of decades. The problem is in his solution. Let people starve. Don't help them. That will cause all kinds of problems down the road.

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