Overpopulation and the Mouse Metaverse

The world's population has sky-rocketed from under 1 billion to around 8 billion in only several hundred years? Should we be worried? Overpopulation has become a huge concern among TED talk enthusiasts and social engineer, but is it more than a meme?We survey the classical views of population growth and its limits starting in Malthus's Principle of Population and how and why his assumptions have been overridden by technological development. Regardless, the 1960's saw a resurgence in Populational Control thinking and the "Zero Population Growth" movement, based in the popular work The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich, but also disputed by the optimistic Julian Simon.Still, one of the more novel issues is that of Behavioral Sinks in modern societies: Industrial economies that are so well off that they population ceases wanting to reproduce or continue normal human life. Modern man is becoming more like the pampered rats in John B. Calhoun's famed Mouse Utopia experiments.📚 See readings and other media.Note that pay-walled academic articles may be obtained by feeding their URLs to sites like Sci-Hub.The Mouse Population Sink – "Population Density and Social Pathology" by John B. Calhoun"An Essay on the Principle of Population" by Robert Malthus"Does saving more lives lead to overpopulation?", a video by Bill GatesThe Population Bomb by Paul ErlichThe Ultimate Resource by Julian SimonThe Resourceful Earth by Julian Simon and Herman KahnTimecodes00:00:00 TED Talk attendees HATE him! 00:01:15 Conspiracies and Georgia Guidestones 00:02:38 Today's readings 00:04:15 Why should population growth be bad? 00:06:54 Malthus and the French Revolution 00:09:43 William Godwin as an Osterich 00:13:13 Malthuses Principles of Population 00:15:50 Carrying Capacity and Well-being 00:17:05 Aside on Supply Curves 00:20:25 Malthus didn't age well. 00:23:48 Soycialism: Utopian and Soyentific 00:25:02 Marginalism 00:27:31 The Mouse Metaverse and Population Collapse 00:31:15 Economic Fragility 00:33:40 GMOs and monoculture 00:35:36 Mortality Comments 00:36:55 Birth control 00:40:30 Decline of White People 00:43:19 BS Jobs: A YouTube hit. Donations 00:47:20 Paul Ehrlich as Lazy Mathusianism 00:51:57 Antinatalism 00:55:27 The Ehrlich-Simon Bet 00:57:40 The Resourceful Earth and the Ultimate Resource 01:03:03 The Greater Population Problem in the Mouse MetaverseMore...The Not Related! website: notrelated.xyzDonations will be read in the middle of each episode: donate.notrelated.xyz