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Podcast: Fascinating Nouns
Episode: Ep. 268: How Humanity Ends
Description: Way back in the bonus episode to ep. 201, Henry Gee and I discuss his article on how the human race is in decline. A better term would be free fall. Well, he expanded that article into an entire book, and we finally get to discuss it! It turns out, as soon as Homo sapiens dominated their competition, and emerged from Africa as the apex predator on Earth, their fate was sealed. With no one to challenge them, Humans have gotten fat and lazy from a genetic sense. Birth rates are falling, and we have outgrown the Earth’s carrying capacit...