The Man Who Wants Us Dead
Vsauce2
Oct 30, 2023 19:30
Create an account to hide videos, mark them watched, or save them to Don't Miss.
Create an account to hide videos, mark them watched, or save them to Don't Miss.
Create an account to hide videos, mark them watched, or save them to Don't Miss.
The biggest bomb doesn't explode how you would think. Let's explore the population bomb.
The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich: https://amzn.to/3Mo3lH5
10 Reasons We’re Wrong About the World by Hans Rosling: https://amzn.to/3FELJDc
The Ultimate Resource by Julian Simon: https://amzn.to/3MlE3JM
Support Vsauce2 on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Vsauce2
The most pressing threat to civilization is us -- and paradoxically, we’re also the solution. When Paul Ehrlich published “The Population Bomb” in 1968, he ushered in an era of doomsday predictions that we’re still in. There are more than twice as many people in the world now than when his book came out, and Ehrlich insists that the population bomb just hasn’t gone off yet.
But optimists like Julian Simon see something else happening. They acknowledge that man-made threats of destruction are not only challenges we can solve -- and that we’re in a better position every day to eliminate our problems -- but that we’re also better off for it.
The philosophical differences between Ehrlich and Simon led to the most famous bet in the world, a bet over natural resources that was really a bet about the future of the human race. And as wrong as Paul Ehrlich has proven to be, we’re so hard-wired to think like him that it’s actually perfectly reasonable to conclude we’re perpetually facing disaster.
*** CREDITS ***
Vsauce2
Twitter: https://twitter.com/VsauceTwo
Instagram: https://instagram.com/kevlieber
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VsauceTwo
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@vsaucetwo
Talk Vsauce2 in The Create Unknown Discord: https://discord.gg/tcu
Vsauce2 on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/vsauce2/
Hosted and Produced by Kevin Lieber
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevinlieber
Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/thecreateunknown
Research and Writing by Matthew Tabor
https://twitter.com/TaborTCU
Editing by John Swan
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJuSltoYKrAUKnbYO5EMZ2A
Huge Thanks To Paula Lieber
Vsauce's Curiosity Box: https://www.curiositybox.com/
What did you think about the population theory of The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich? Subscribe for more science, history, and education videos every month!
#Education #Science #Vsauce #History #doomsday #Humanity #populationbomb
Science & Technology
#doomsday
#end of the world
#doomsday bomb
#the population bomb
#population
#population growth
#population bomb
#paul ehrlich
#overpopulation problems
#human overpopulation
#kurzgesagt
#population theory
#science
#education
#julian simon
#overpopulating
#climate change
#global warming
#population control
#history
#Hans Rosling
#vsauce
#vsauce2
#weird history
#science history
#mind blow
#hossenfelder
#overpopulation
#global population
#ted talk
#ted talks
#ted ed
#history of science