In this episode Trent discusses how “prophets of doom” in the 1970’s got the issue of overpopulation wrong and how this parallels other modern mistaken alarmists.

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Trent Horn:

I think some people never grow out of being afraid of the boogeyman. I think they start with as a kid being afraid of the monster under the bed. And, then it turns, and that irrational fear turns into an irrational fear of a future disaster that the evidence doesn’t actually support, that is just speculation. That evidence continually mount…