Selects: How Zero Population Growth Works
Stuff You Should Know
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🗓️ 24 February 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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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. Learn all about it in this classic episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Ed Zittron, host of the Better offline Podcast. |
| 0:03.2 | I've been both a tech writer and a tech executive for 15 years, |
| 0:07.3 | and I've seen this industry grow from a bunch of dorks building things in their |
| 0:10.9 | garage into a multi trillion dollar behemoth that has monetized every corner of our lives. |
| 0:16.0 | Better offline is a podcast where I'll lead you through the good, the bad and the stupid of the tech industry. |
| 0:21.0 | And tell you exactly how venture capitalists and technocrat billionaires intend to influence your digital lives. |
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| 0:45.8 | Yo, what's up? It's your boy, the human duerax. your and I'm back the greatest blog of all time. Victory Light is now the greatest podcast of all time and I got some friends with me. Victory Light is a fountain so |
| 0:51.6 | get your cup ready, |
| 0:52.7 | because it's about to run it over. |
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| 1:10.0 | Hey everybody, it's your old pal Josh and for this week's select I've chosen our 2015 episode on Zero Population. It's an extremely interesting episode about the upper limits of human population that the Earth can handle. |
| 1:15.0 | And interestingly, it's also about just how many humans humanity can handle too. |
| 1:20.0 | When does eating soil and green make sense? Maybe you can decide for yourself in this |
| 1:25.3 | heady episode. Enjoy. |
| 1:27.0 | Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 1:35.0 | Hey and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W Chuck Bryant. |
| 1:44.6 | This is stuff you should know. Podcast? Jerry's over there? |
| 1:49.4 | It's pretty much the norm. |
| 1:53.0 | Yep. |
| 1:54.0 | Yep. |
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