Population, Sustainability, and Malthus: Crash Course World History 215
In which John Green teaches you about population. So, how many people can reasonably live on the Earth? Thomas Malthus got it totally wrong in the 19th century, but for some reason, he keeps...
========== Hi, I'm John Green. This is Crash Course World
History and today we're talking about one of my least favorite subjects, the end of
humanity. Mr. Green! Mr. Green! Does that mean that
you can see the future? If so, how do things work out with Amanda Key? Oh, me from the past, the phrase "work out"
implies that there was a relationship to work out, which there wasn't, and there will never
be. However, you do currently know your eventual
wife. But I'm not telling you who she is, because if I do you will screw it up! So we're not gonna look at the actual end
of humanity today. We're going to learn about a theory about the downfall of civilization.
And unlike all the true theories, this one doesn't involve aliens, or robots...