How Zero Population Growth Works

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 16 April 2015

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In 1968, Paul Erlich published The Population Bomb, predicting coming famine and mass death. Erlich's predictions didn't pan out but his ideas launched a debate still raging today.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.3	Welcome to Stuffy Should Know from HouseofWorks.com.
0:41.2	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:42.6	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant.
0:45.8	Is this stuff you should know?
0:47.6	Podcast?
0:49.2	Jerry's over there?
0:52.1	It's pretty much the norm.
0:54.1	Yep.
0:55.1	Yep.
0:56.1	How you doing man?
0:57.1	How you feeling?
0:58.1	Oh, little rough.
0:59.1	Sir, are you?
1:00.1	You'll make it through, won't you?
1:02.1	Yeah.
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