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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 474: Population decline? Is that the new threat to humanity?
Description: The boys drink and review an English Mild from Schaffly, then discuss different approaches to population.
Pigweed starts the show with the startling facts about population and how rapidly we got from 1 billion to 8 billion so quickly -- with no apparent signs of stopping.
Malthus raised the concern that population can increase geometrically, but food production increases arithmetically, and predicted widespread starvation.
In fact, food production skyrocketed, so the problem has been averted for now.
Paul Erlich has been riding a similar issue for decades even though all his predictions turned...