 Guys I've got great news. What is it? I'm pregnant. Yeah, I mean I mean uh, whoa Congrats, who would have guessed? Pregaginants, but don't you know the world's already overpopulated Actually Bob the narrative of impending human overpopulation is mostly mythical Yeah, I heard about that isn't most of that just sensationalism and junk science what? How could the possibility of too many people be a myth? There are only so many natural resources Yes, and no the concept of natural resources is a pretty misunderstood one People tend to believe that there have always been a finite number of usable resources to which humans have had access and that throughout the course of human history We've been dwindling down our supply But this is a huge overpopulation While it's true that we do live in a finite universe the number of resources we have access to is constantly expanding How is that possible? Because we're constantly discovering new resources We never knew could be helpful to us in developing more efficient ways of harvesting what we already value But what if we run out of resources before we can discover new ones? That doesn't seem likely to start with since 1980 the population has gone from 4.5 billion to 7.5 billion in yet extreme poverty has been cut in half wait So you're telling me that as our population is increased poverty has decreased But that's the exact opposite of what we would see if more people meant fewer resources for everyone else Yep, that's insane. Well, it might seem insane if you view humans as liabilities But the truth is every person is an asset beyond being valuable on a metaphysical level We all have an incredible potential to produce wealth for ourselves and others and as the population increases This potential increases as well in other words is our need to consume resources increases So does our ability huh that makes sense So Sarah's child won't be a terrible burden on the world Thanks. Nope in fact that child has a bright future ahead What I just came over here to tell you that I was pregnant and you ended up lecturing us about some obscure economic principle Why can't you just be normal? Why can't we have ordinary human interactions? Why is it that every time we hang out you end up explaining the economy to somebody? When is the baby do I already had it? Hey folks, thank you so much for watching if you enjoyed this video and want to see more like it Please check out feed org. Thank you