Episode · Stuff They Don't Want You To Know · 2023-01-11
Books mentioned on The Overpopulation Conspiracy
Humanity has always had one biological mission: to grow and expand its population. And, since the days of antiquity, great thinkers have been terrified by the idea that, one day, there will simply be too many people on the planet.
Ben Bowlin discussed An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus, The Population Bomb by Paul R. Ehrlich, and Almosts; a Study of the Feeble-Minded by Helen Macmurchy.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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An Essay on the Principle of Population
An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus is a foundational 1798 economic and demographic text arguing that population growth tends to outpace agricultural production, leading to inevitable resource scarcity and societal competition.
Discussed“we got to introduce uh one of the most infamous guys in this conversation Thomas Malthus in 1798 he writes this thing he calls an essay on the principle of population”
Where to get it
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The Population Bomb
The Population Bomb by Paul R.
Discussed“there's a guy named Professor Paul R Ehrlich and he writes a book in 1968 called the population bomb his predictions are a kind of neo-malthusian thing”
Where to get it
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Almosts; a Study of the Feeble-Minded
Discussed“there was a uh a Canadian physician and eugenicist named Helen mcmurchie or mcmurkey who issue these reports on feeble-mindedness between 1907 and 1918 and published a study in 1920 called the almost a study of feeble-minded a study of the feeble-minded”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Stand
“civilization as you dear reader know it will plummet just like the Stephen King book The Stand”