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Uploaded by on Oct 13, 2009

While doomsayers have long predicted catastrophe from over-population, recent decades have shown that human ingenuity can create a world with more people *and* greater prosperity for all. More people on the planet means not just more mouths to feed, but also more brains to think and more hands to help with the work of building a better world.

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  • @ZangaroZen "the 1980s/20 year predictions underestimated technological advancements."

    Don't people create technology?

    juliansimon. com/writings/Ultimate_Resource­/TCHAR34. txt

    "the most general and most appealing explanation of this discrepancy between theory and evidence is the nexus of economies of scale, the creation and adaptation of new knowledge by additional people, and the creation of new resources from new knowledge."

  • The video conveniently leaves out the Ehrlich sources, his 1968 book "The Population Bomb", and his predictions were for the 80s. To extrapolate those predictions 25 more years is very misleading.

    Yes the 1980s/20 year predictions underestimated technological advancements. Then again no one predicted a mainframe the size of a truck would be shrunk to a fraction of an inch.

    Easter Island is an analogy to the earth in miniature, the result of rampant population growth and resource usage.

  • Paul Ehrlich's population time bomb was just rehashed malthusian economics. All proven wrong.

    Great video!

  • the hell you want, a medal for not dieing?

  • The death predictions might come true if we do what the environmentalists want!

  • Awesome vid. The doomcasters endlessly re-invent themselves don't they?

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