The Coming Population Collapse

Making the Argument with Nick Freitas

Nick Freitas

News, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Politics

4.4 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Summary

For decades, we heard alarming claims from experts like Malthus in the 1800s and Paul Ehrlich in the late 1900s, telling us that unless things changed dramatically, population growth would spell disaster for the world. Today, we will discuss the predictions, what happened, and what the future will look like.

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0:00.0	So is the population growing completely out of control or are we headed toward absolute collapse?
0:05.6	Because I'm old enough to remember listening to people like Paul Oralwick, Earl Rick, Earl Rick.
0:11.1	You know it's his far.
0:12.1	It's his fault for having a difficult last name.
0:15.0	Predict that pretty much the world was going to end in the late 20th century.
0:19.9	And for some reason, some of those predictions
0:21.2	just didn't come true. And by some, I mean, all of them. All of them didn't come true. So today
0:25.0	what we're going to discuss is this question of population growth, population decline, is it really
0:30.7	as bad as the Malthusians say? And yes, we'll talk about Malthus. Or is it as bad as Elon Musk and Jordan Peterson say. So we're going to go through.
0:38.3	We're going to look at the data. We're going to look at growth rates. We're going to look at
0:40.5	fertility rates. And we're going to ask ourselves the question, is the population declining out of
0:44.4	control? And if it is, is that a bad thing? Because a lot of people seem to think it's actually a good
0:48.5	thing. All of that and more coming up on this episode of Making the Argument brought to you by Good Rangers. Thank you so much for being here.
0:54.7	We would love to get to know every one of you in our community chat, which you can join by going to the link in the description of this show.
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1:06.2	All right.
1:06.6	As always, I'm your host, Nick Freitas, member of the Virginia House of Delegates for now. But other than that, a reasonably good guy.
1:12.3	And then we have my beautiful bride, Tina, Queen of the Bees.
1:15.6	Hello, everybody.
1:16.7	And then we have Dumer of Dumers, our political prognosticator and resident historian, Christian Hines.
1:23.0	The future is Detroit.
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