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345. 12 Ways the Planet Could Truly Be Saved | Bjørn Lomborg

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Presumptuous Model of Humanity

The historical bet between Paul Ehrlich and Julian Simon, based on Malthusian theory, predicted mass starvation and commodity scarcity by the year 2000, likening human population to yeast in a petri dish. However, this model overlooks the natural ecosystem's checks and balances and is deemed presumptuous by Alfred North Whitehead. He suggests that human thought enables the abandonment of outdated ideas, essentially replacing biological death with a virtual one, allowing for continuous adaptation and improvement without an apparent limit.

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