Jordan Peterson

So that's the first thing we might wanna notice that. When Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, the fact that our industrial processes were creating a certain degree of havoc in some specified ecosystems was the sort of thing that wealthy people could afford to worry about.

And then did. And then Paul Ehrlich and the Club of Rome, those people, man, they got a lot of sins on their conscience. And their notion was overpopulation in a world defined by finitude. Right. And that's had a... I can't think of a doctrine that's done more harm than that. Maybe the Communist doctrine, possibly.

And then did. And then Paul Ehrlich and the Club of Rome, those people, man, they got a lot of sins on their conscience. And their notion was overpopulation in a world defined by finitude. Right. And that's had a... I can't think of a doctrine that's done more harm than that. Maybe the Communist doctrine, possibly.

And then did. And then Paul Ehrlich and the Club of Rome, those people, man, they got a lot of sins on their conscience. And their notion was overpopulation in a world defined by finitude. Right. And that's had a... I can't think of a doctrine that's done more harm than that. Maybe the Communist doctrine, possibly.

Possibly that. But apart from that, that notion of intrinsic Malthusian scarcity. Now, there's a great story about that, right? Because Paul Ehrlich, who is the master biologist of the Malthusian nightmare. So the Malthusian nightmare is the idea that human beings are best modeled as mold in a Petri dish.

Possibly that. But apart from that, that notion of intrinsic Malthusian scarcity. Now, there's a great story about that, right? Because Paul Ehrlich, who is the master biologist of the Malthusian nightmare. So the Malthusian nightmare is the idea that human beings are best modeled as mold in a Petri dish.

Possibly that. But apart from that, that notion of intrinsic Malthusian scarcity. Now, there's a great story about that, right? Because Paul Ehrlich, who is the master biologist of the Malthusian nightmare. So the Malthusian nightmare is the idea that human beings are best modeled as mold in a Petri dish.

We'll multiply uncontrollably and rapaciously until we devour all of the biological substrate and then we'll all cataclysmically starve. It's like, no, no. There's nothing about that that's right in the human situation if things are mastered properly because we can switch the substrate. And that's actually why we have a cortex, right? I mean, our niche is substrate switching.

We'll multiply uncontrollably and rapaciously until we devour all of the biological substrate and then we'll all cataclysmically starve. It's like, no, no. There's nothing about that that's right in the human situation if things are mastered properly because we can switch the substrate. And that's actually why we have a cortex, right? I mean, our niche is substrate switching.

We'll multiply uncontrollably and rapaciously until we devour all of the biological substrate and then we'll all cataclysmically starve. It's like, no, no. There's nothing about that that's right in the human situation if things are mastered properly because we can switch the substrate. And that's actually why we have a cortex, right? I mean, our niche is substrate switching.

That's what we have evolved to do.

That's what we have evolved to do.

That's what we have evolved to do.

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Right.

Right.

Yep.

Yep.

Yep.

Yeah, right.