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153. Rational Optimism | Matt Ridley
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
The Malthusian Trap
Malthus' idea was that if you kept people alive, they would simply have more babies. We then moved to a world in which food became more and more productive. Babies stopped dying. And weirdly, once they stopped dying, people started having fewer of them. This is a phenomenon called the demographic transition that took us really by surprise.
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