🤯 [VIDEO] - Plastics Expert Breaks Down Whether Our Population is too Big | Eric Olsson • #119

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🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 189 minutes

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(***TIMESTAMPS in Description Below) ~ Eric Olsson is a chemical engineer and sustainability expert from Austin, Texas. Currently, Eric is working on building the foundation of a “New Plastics Economy” that doesn’t exclude any industry. ***TIMESTAMPS*** 0:00 - Intro; Is The Population Too Big?; Human reproduction in the future; Japan 23:16 - The ratios of our population matter; Energy Access & Humanity; Austin and Growing Cities 43:33 - Japan Contraception Data; The 3 phases of healthcare development 56:18 - “Othering” each other; A New Normal?; Good vs. Bad & The Zero Sum Game 1:16:43 - The Fourth Turning; Millennials vs Gen Z 1:37:58 - Andrew Bustamante says “we need an enemy”; Other countries not helping us fix environment 1:53:56 - How climate change became a political issue; The origins of the term “Climate Change”; Shutting down opinions 2:19:10 - Gun Control Discussion 2:25:29 - Plastics & Carbon explained 2:36:44 - Eric’s early career in Big Oil and his shift to Sustainability 2:54:23 - What is the history of Recycling?; Paul Rosolie and the trees problem; How we can fix environmental issues ~ Get $150 Off The Eight Sleep Pod Pro Mattress / Mattress Cover (USING CODE: “TRENDIFIER”): https://eight-sleep.ioym.net/trendifier Julian's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/julianddorey ~ Beat provided by: https://freebeats.io Music Produced by White Hot Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Boom. It's here. It's fucking here.
0:03.6	It's not about how many people we have. It's about ratios.
0:06.8	And where they fall in the population period, are they in their 20s?
0:10.5	Are they at that lower level rising up in the workforce?
0:13.5	Or are they 65 in planning on a check coming their way?
0:17.3	In my second podcast with Andrew Bustamante, the CIA guy, he said, and I quote,
0:23.0	we need an enemy.
0:24.2	Bustamante is right.
0:25.1	We do need an enemy.
0:26.2	Why does it have to be someone else in this world that is also a human?
0:30.9	So in our Lego set of life, carbon just happens to be the sht.
0:34.9	Exactly.
0:35.6	It happens to be the element with the highest affinity for bonding.
0:39.3	I'm going to say body count. Same thing, right?
0:45.3	Whoa, it's cooking everybody. I am joined in the bunker today by Mr. Eric Olson, and this was quite the philosophical discussion.
0:57.3	Eric is a guy who initially worked in big oil and then moved his way over to sustainability.
1:02.5	So he has quite the experience across the spectrum here.
1:05.4	And it is also reflected in how he generates opinions on pretty much anything.
1:09.8	So I very much appreciate the nuance that he has in approaching difficult discussions
1:14.6	to have to happen in society, and I think we got to a lot of them today.
1:17.6	So I hope you guys enjoy.
1:19.6	If you're on YouTube right now, please hit that subscribe button.
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