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

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The U.N. Population Predictions Are Not Affordable

The idea of overpopulation never went anywhere in the late 60s and early 70s. Paul Erlich's a pretty smart biologist, but Julian Simon was a genius. I also think he's dead on with his criticisms about the U.N.'s population predictions. There's no evidence they're accurate at all. We are currently on eight or 7 billion people in the world. It's perfectly possible at the end of this century there will be as manypeople in the world as they are now.

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