CLASSIC: Is there enough for everyone?

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🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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While the human species is inarguably successful (for now), hundreds of millions of people struggle under daily threats of starvation, physical danger, lack of shelter and disease. And, perhaps more troubling, the numbers indicate it's possible to feed and shelter virtually every single person on the planet -- or is it? Is there enough for everyone, and, if so, why isn't humanity transforming this potential into a reality? Join the guys as they explore the answers to this question -- along with its disturbing implications -- in tonight's Classic episode.

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0:00.0	fellow conspiracy realist welcome back uh we have a classic episode for you from 2020 uh in the trenches
0:09.8	of covid we put our heads together and we asked ourselves is there actually enough for everyone i love this
0:19.6	it's a very philosophical question that it's hard, but also a very practical question.
0:24.4	And we talk about all of those angles in this classic episode.
0:27.6	I remember thinking about one specific guy.
0:31.2	Do you remember who it was?
0:32.8	We talked about him on infamous inventors a long time ago.
0:36.6	Man named Norman Borlaug.
0:38.8	Yeah.
0:40.4	Save the world.
0:42.2	Cat and wheat.
0:43.8	Yeah.
0:44.0	That's right.
0:44.9	Well, it made us all think about this thing where humanity has been attempting to create
0:51.0	more and more and more food, right?
0:53.0	So everybody has that because that's a
0:54.5	necessity to figure out ways to filter water and purify water because we need that too.
1:00.6	But what do we mean when we say, is there enough for everyone? Is it just those two things?
1:06.3	Or is it more? Oh, it's more. Right. Yeah. You know, as we recorded then in 2020 and even now in
1:14.1	2025, it's no secret that hundreds and hundreds of millions of people are struggling under
1:20.6	daily physical threats like starvation, danger, disease, lack of sanitation and shelter,
1:26.5	but also what about the philosophical points,
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