Oz Veloshian
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1,084 appearances
6 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 29 May
Oz Veloshian’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And yeah, maybe I got the timeframe wrong.
Although he actually gave a date.
I mean, as you said, like in these books, he's like by the end of the 1970s.
And then he was like by the end of the 1980s.
So he at least could have been more...
held responsible.
I don't mean held responsible like he should have been taken out, put in the public stocks and had rotten fruit thrown in his face.
I just mean, you know, ideas do have consequence.
I do this, you do this.
In the belief that ideas have consequence, people value them.
In a capitalist society, they value them and are willing to pay for them where somebody is willing to subsidize them.
And that ideas matter.
And his ideas shaped a generation of attitudes and continues to.
Of scarcity, which some people track to real world consequences to his work, including, you know, the one child policy in China and immigration laws and stuff.
I'm writing a book about corn as a technology we eat.
Explain about the corn and what Ehrlich missed.
Corn was an answer to the problem that Ehrlich posited, which is we're running out of food.
Then Ehrlich also said we're running out of resources, food and resources, that the carrying capacity of the planet was being reached by too many people, not enough stuff, basically.
And corn is one of the many examples, but certainly one of the most profound, of corn yields just kept going up and not down.
And they went up faster than human population did, which means corn doesn't just feed people.
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