Jordan Peterson

Yeah, right.

Yeah, right.

Which may be the next problem we really have to face.

Which may be the next problem we really have to face.

Which may be the next problem we really have to face.

Well, that's the next issue. Well, the Malthusian hypothesis is one, but you put a dagger in its heart on the population side, because Ehrlich's fear, the Club of Rome, these desperate people, they presumed that there'd be a never-ending cycle of population increase. But it's not happening. No, the opposite of what they predicted was happening.

Well, that's the next issue. Well, the Malthusian hypothesis is one, but you put a dagger in its heart on the population side, because Ehrlich's fear, the Club of Rome, these desperate people, they presumed that there'd be a never-ending cycle of population increase. But it's not happening. No, the opposite of what they predicted was happening.

Well, that's the next issue. Well, the Malthusian hypothesis is one, but you put a dagger in its heart on the population side, because Ehrlich's fear, the Club of Rome, these desperate people, they presumed that there'd be a never-ending cycle of population increase. But it's not happening. No, the opposite of what they predicted was happening.

Exactly, exactly, is that wealth produces a maybe cataclysmic decline in the birth rate. Now, that's something we could modify and likely will, but that's the opposite of what they predicted. And then there's the famous bet between Paul Ehrlich and Julian Simon, Julian being the economist.

Exactly, exactly, is that wealth produces a maybe cataclysmic decline in the birth rate. Now, that's something we could modify and likely will, but that's the opposite of what they predicted. And then there's the famous bet between Paul Ehrlich and Julian Simon, Julian being the economist.

Exactly, exactly, is that wealth produces a maybe cataclysmic decline in the birth rate. Now, that's something we could modify and likely will, but that's the opposite of what they predicted. And then there's the famous bet between Paul Ehrlich and Julian Simon, Julian being the economist.

who was a polymath and a genius in a completely different intellectual category than Dr. Ehrlich, I'm afraid. And they had a famous bet, I think it was in the 1970s, when Ehrlich was proposing that by the year 2000, commodity prices would shoot through the roof as a consequence of scarcity and everyone would be dying of starvation.

who was a polymath and a genius in a completely different intellectual category than Dr. Ehrlich, I'm afraid. And they had a famous bet, I think it was in the 1970s, when Ehrlich was proposing that by the year 2000, commodity prices would shoot through the roof as a consequence of scarcity and everyone would be dying of starvation.

who was a polymath and a genius in a completely different intellectual category than Dr. Ehrlich, I'm afraid. And they had a famous bet, I think it was in the 1970s, when Ehrlich was proposing that by the year 2000, commodity prices would shoot through the roof as a consequence of scarcity and everyone would be dying of starvation.

And Simon bet him famously that he could offer his own basket of commodities and that... A weighted average of that commodity basket would be less expensive in 2000 than in the 1970s.

And Simon bet him famously that he could offer his own basket of commodities and that... A weighted average of that commodity basket would be less expensive in 2000 than in the 1970s.

And Simon bet him famously that he could offer his own basket of commodities and that... A weighted average of that commodity basket would be less expensive in 2000 than in the 1970s.

Yeah. Simon won. Yeah. Right.

Yeah. Simon won. Yeah. Right.

Yeah. Simon won. Yeah. Right.