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Episode 301: 8 Billion

Words & Numbers

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The Malthusian Controversy

We have a very good answer to our energy problems in nuclear. We've set up so many barriers to that that we're not even using it. I suspect we go to nuclear at some point in the future, but I think an entire generation of politicians probably has to die off. What you do is you play a game of the law of large numbers. If you want to be able to support lots of people, you need lots of people.

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