Ep. 573 The Overpopulation Myth (and Mars, Too)
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2016
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Is overpopulation a real problem? Our guest explains why not. He's also founder and president of the Mars Society, so you can bet that subject comes up as well....
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 573. |
| 0:03.8 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.6 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:14.9 | Hey, everybody, if you missed our webinar with entrepreneur and Ron Paul supporter Chris |
| 0:18.9 | Record, we donated $2,000 to anti-war.com because we had so many |
| 0:24.1 | people who were able to be there live. And when we polled people at the end, was this a good use of your |
| 0:29.8 | time? Did you learn practical things? 96% said yes. Chris Record has business ideas coming out his |
| 0:36.6 | ears, and he was giving us one after |
| 0:38.9 | another during this webinar. It is not to be missed. Check out the replay at tomwoods.com |
| 0:44.6 | slash replay. Hello and welcome to another episode of the show. What a great topic we've got here. |
| 0:50.6 | You probably think once in a while, how's Wood's going to keep coming up with topics? I mean, it's episode 573. |
| 0:56.9 | Eventually, you've got to start repeating yourself or something, but doggone it, there are a lot of great topics out there. |
| 1:02.1 | And I think overpopulations are really good one. Because this was a really, really big issue. |
| 1:08.2 | Maybe a generation and a half, two generations ago, big, big deal, is warning |
| 1:13.6 | about overpopulation. This is really how Paul Ehrlich made his reputation. As somebody who warned |
| 1:19.9 | about overpopulation, he wrote the population bomb. And we did an episode on Paul Ehrlich and his |
| 1:26.3 | famous bet with Julian Simon. And Simon won that bet, and that was a case clearly of a libertarian winning a bet with a statist. |
| 1:34.9 | So you should check out that episode. I'll link to that on today's show notes page, which of course is tomwoods.com slash 573. |
| 1:43.0 | So I thought we'd talk about overpopulation, but it turns out that the gentleman |
| 1:47.1 | I invited to talk about this, who's actually written an awful lot about this subject, is also |
| 1:52.8 | something of an expert on rather a different subject. So the person I'm talking about is Robert |
| 1:59.0 | Zubran, who is the author of Merchants of Despair, |
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