208. The Progress of the Human Race, Part 1

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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🗓️ 9 December 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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All we ever hear about on the mainstream news is that the world is in dire straights, that we are going in an irreversible direction, and that it is all our fault. Throughout many conversations in Season 4 of this podcast, we have explored these narratives in depth. We would like to promote an alternative narrative... Did you know that in 1981, 42% of the world’s population was living in what is called “absolute poverty” and by 2018, that number had fallen to 8.1%? By 2030, we are on pace to have less than 5% of the world’s population living in poverty. Are you aware that alongside nearly eradicating poverty, we have also nearly ended world hunger? Over the last 50 years, we have added nearly 1,000 calories per day to the world food supply average. The world’s poorest region, Sub-Saharan Africa, has roughly the same access to food as Portugal did in the 1960s. As of the last survey in 2017, only 2 out of 173 nations in the world have food access averages under 2,000 calories per day. We have also drastically increased the supply of tree coverage across the globe, resources are being used more efficiently than ever before, and the global economy has grown by over 100x over the last 200 hundred years. There are legitimate reasons to be concerned about certain specific issues that we still need to improve; but overall, the data is undeniable. We are living in an age of seemingly-impossible progress in nearly every sector imaginable.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Jordan B Peterson podcast season four episode 65, I'm Michaela Peterson.
0:06.3	If you haven't heard, dad is going on tour. Check tickets out at JordanB Peterson.com slash
0:12.8	events and keep in mind there will be more dates added next week like Canadian dates which haven't
0:18.7	been announced quite yet. For this episode, this is our first compilation highlighting the progress
0:25.0	of the human race worth a listen very positive. All we ever hear about on the mainstream news is
0:31.3	that the world is in dire straits that we are going in an irreversible direction and that it's
0:36.3	all our fault. Throughout many conversations in season four of this podcast, we've explored
0:41.6	these narratives in depth. We would like to promote an alternative narrative. Did you know that in 1981,
0:47.6	42% of the world's population was living in what is called absolute poverty and by 2018 that
0:53.4	number had fallen to 8.1% by 2030, we're on a pace to have less than 5% of the world's population
1:00.4	living in poverty. Are you aware that alongside nearly eradicating poverty, we've also nearly
1:06.0	ended world hunger. Over the last 50 years, we've added nearly 1000 calories per day to the world
1:11.8	food supply average. We've also drastically increased the supply of tree coverage across the globe.
1:18.6	Resources are being used more efficiently than ever before and the global economy has grown by over
1:22.8	100 times over the last 200 years. There are legitimate reasons to be concerned about certain
1:28.5	specific issues that we still need to improve, but overall the data is undeniable. We are living
1:34.6	in an age of seemingly impossible progress in nearly every sector imaginable. Enjoy this episode.
1:55.8	I mean, since the early 60s, we've doubled the human population, but we've slightly shrunk the
2:00.9	amount of land we put under the plow every year. There's been a 68% reduction over 50 years in
2:10.5	the amount of land needed to produce a given quantity of food. That's the most extraordinary
2:16.2	phenomenon. It's basically the story of the Green Revolution. You make the case there too that
2:22.3	without that occurring and that is a concept, we should go into the Green Revolution to some
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