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

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Population Bomb Scarred Generations of People

In the post-Second World War era, global population started to grow at a much faster rate than before. Some people thought that there was going to be too many people in the world and consequently, we were going to run out of resources. Paul Ehrlich wrote an extremely popular books book which sold millions of copies called the population bomb. He basically said no matter what policy changes we are going to make now, hundreds of millions of people are going to die due to starvation.

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