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#623 - Dr Jean Twenge - Why Do Young People Seem So Fragile?

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The Importance of Externalizing to Change the World

I see so much because I talk about the sort of declining birth rates a good bit. People saying why it is fully unethical to bring a child into this world when it's already overpopulated and we're destroying the planet. And do you really think, like, if you think that living on a planet that's got too many people, which we don't at the moment is bad, wait until you live on one that’s got too few. Wait until they try to desperately hold on to an embedded growth obligation to continue the GDP to grow when the population is dropping by 10, 20, 30% per generation. It's just the most anti-natalist position that you

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