The infamous overpopulation bet: Simon vs. Ehrlich - Soraya Field Fiorio

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Discover an infamous bet between two professors, which sought to predict whether the earth would run out of resources due to a growing human population.
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In 1980, Paul Ehrlich and Julian Simon bet $1,000 on a question with stakes that couldn’t be higher: would the earth run out of resources to sustain a growing human population? They bet $200 on the price of five metals. If the price of a metal decreased or held steady over the next decade, Simon won. If the price increased, Ehrlich won. So, what happened? Soraya Field Fiorio investigates.
Lesson by Soraya Field Fiorio, directed by Avi Ofer.
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I had this topic briefly in my Master Resource Economics course like a year ago… it‘s funny to me to see a video from TEDed now :D

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You seriously never heard of science rivalries? why do you think most educated people and "the wealthy" always have troubles with things that have been science approved and so forth. I personally find it difficult to believe when a science study throws results regardless if they are favorable or unfavorable because I know for a fact a different scientist or lab would come and "debunk" that previous study.... :\

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Ted Ed had made science rivalry videos before! As far as I know, one was about two palaeontologists.

@pierQRzt180 2 года назад

Random topic? Overpopulation is not a random topic

@FlushGorgon 2 года назад

Economy is no science.

@eduardobarros6562 2 года назад

That's literally the problem of Brazil. We're an extremely rich country with the greatest water supply, both pluvial and mineral, and one of the biggest agriculture market, but with corrupt politicians diverting funds, we can't give everyone an equal chance of making money. This year, the unemployement and famine rates are skyrocketing.

@ThePickledsoul 2 года назад

Have you tried sending some of those motorcycle assassins that plague brazil at them?

@eduardobarros6562 2 года назад

@@ThePickledsoul great Idea, but killing them now would make them heroes. There is a great portion that still supports them as if everything was okay.

@Crazmuss 2 года назад

Ha, ha, I heard same thing in Russia. And in Ukraine. Apparently in every poor country populists love to tell that this country is "extremely rich, but corrupt politicians...", while obviously it is just a matter of lazy population. Just get a job.

@eduardobarros6562 2 года назад

@@Crazmuss If you read a little bit, you would know that Brazil is the top 3 country with highest tax rate, and yet our public systems are mostly inefficient. This can only mean corruption. And is already proved when politicians take money to other countries, ones we call "fiscal paradises".

@Crazmuss 2 года назад

@@eduardobarros6562 yea yea, just earn more, you peasant! My grandma used to not have salary at all in USSR and it was greatest country on Earth!

@ZOCCOK 2 года назад

The most unbelievable thing was that the person who lost the bet paid the amount 😂

@cubeyu5596 2 года назад

Thank you for not spoiling the video :D

@bobthegoat7090 2 года назад

Yeah you are right. I have won 4 out of 5 bets throughout my life but I have still lost more than I have gained because people don't pay but I do, so don't bet

@dye4na 2 года назад

only scientists would, they get even witnesses for it. never seen anyone else to be so upfront about it

@nithin7874 2 года назад

@@bobthegoat7090 lesson : betting doesn't pay everytime

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@revysingh 2 года назад

I find it remarkable that Victorian-level mathematics from Thomas Malthus is still widely accepted and proposed by non-economists in the 21st century. Maybe because it's simple to understand. Whereas something like Econometrics requires more than mere high school-level math.

@Marques2000 2 года назад

I think is because Malthusianism is very convenient on politics

@paulgaither 2 года назад

The math isn't wrong. That was the way the world and society worked throughout all of human history, and was written in 1798 on the brink of the industrial revolution. While the industrial revolution, which didn't really start to take off until 1820-1840. Until that point, there was a glass ceiling of production any individual or group of individuals could achieve. Mechanization changed *everything.*

@wanderingthewastes6159 2 года назад

Paul Gaither the math WASN'T wrong, but the equation changed.

@paulgaither 2 года назад

@@wanderingthewastes6159 - You are arguing semantics. The math still very much applies all over the world in underdeveloped nations. Apart from government policies and countless others factors, the concepts remain valid. Just because one lives in a bubble of safety and security doesn't mean it applies to the entire globe.

@wanderingthewastes6159 2 года назад

Paul Gaither did I ever say that these concepts were invalid? All I said is that there are way more variables in this equation than Malthus initially considered. Sure, x, y and z matter, but there are also a, b and c. Moreover, high population is almost a prerequisite for undeveloped nations to experience economic growth, since this makes multinational investors and corporations have a large incentive to invest in the country's big domestic market. Also let's not forget that pre covid poverty rates had been on the decline for decades, with extreme poverty being cut in half in the last 30 years. It is very safe to say that ever increasing population pools have not shown to impede welfare growth.

@manjushaiyer5763 2 года назад

The background music sets the tone perfectly for each section💜

@kushalvora7682 2 года назад

1:35 he was kind of right. Cultured meat, precision fermentation, plasma technology, vertical farming etc can not only boost yield but also improve quality.

@rafamilk1 2 года назад

yes, the thing is, we still lack resources, even if we are not alive to see it happening, the future generations will not find ways to support an increasing population. Paul Ehrlich was right but just a litte bit shortsighted on the "colapse year"

@DivinesLegacy 2 года назад

@@rafamilk1 lets make a bet

@tdvwest9514 Год назад

@@rafamilk1 You population bomb enthusiasts have been BTFOed so often that you are borderline flat earthers. Paul Ehrlich was wrong and his philosophy has caused more suffering and resource shortages then any population growth.

@juncearyoutube3336 Год назад

@@rafamilk1 I also want to bet with you.

@nyquillusdillwad9119 Год назад

These are things due to technological advancements, not increased population growth. Technology advances with time, and so does population, but correlation does not imply causation. Increased population increases demand, technology increases supply. So long as technology advancements can keep up, then prices don't rise, but in markets where technology has peaked or stagnated, we have seen increased prices.

@jameslongstaff2762 2 года назад

I learned about this wager in my environmental economics course in college. Thanks for making a video so it's easier for me to explain this to people

@snowcold5932 2 года назад

We actually already produce enough food for everyone on earth, and even for a population of 11 billion which is supposed to be our peak. It is just not profitable enough to feed everyone.

@carlogaytan7010 2 года назад

Underrated comment. We shouldn't be fearing population growth and global doom if our first priority is profit.

@comradeofthebalance3147 2 года назад

Not to mention lots of technologies that could be alternatives or better farming techniques. Arcology basically.

@Jakedasnake1066 2 года назад

I would like to clear up a misconception that some may have about this statement. It is true, I would imagine. But, not doing something because it isn't profitable is not the result of greed, but of necessity. No company is Scrooge McDuck, swimming in a pool of infinite money. If you do something unprofitable, no matter how noble, your company will quickly dissapear, and with no company or money you can't keep doing that noble thing anymore! Finding a way to do something profitable doesn't imply greed, it is in fact synonymous with doing it sustainably.

@carlogaytan7010 2 года назад

@@Jakedasnake1066 a company would not lose money by giving unused food to people that cant afford thier food anyway.

@None-do2qn 2 года назад

@@Jakedasnake1066 that’s why we need governments or UN to do it not companies. Of course communism is not the answer

@Cronuz2 2 года назад

The little girl with the sign says: "School strike for the climate." its in sweedish, a referance to Greta Thunberg.

@lordmeow 2 года назад

I thought it was german, cool reference

@SIZModig 2 года назад

It was a nice surprise, speaking as a Swede

@monkiram 2 года назад

I guessed from the braids and the Germanic-looking language (I can't tell them apart) that it was Greta Thunberg. Thanks for the translation!

@kininagothu2526 2 года назад

someone came before me-

@TheHomeExpert5 2 года назад

You mean that bratty little girl who knows nothing, but yet the whole world thinks she's a genius?

@md.zimamahmed9584 2 года назад

I like how Ehrlich adjusted for inflation in Simon's way

@Jone952 2 года назад

The price of metals seems like a good choice to me. The bet had nothing to do with how charitable rich nations would be in the future, just their ability to efficiently utilize scarce resources.

@jcas 2 года назад

Seems pretty obvious that the narrator knows about Economics just as Ehrlich did. Of course, it is a good choice. You cannot study tons of variables for ten years just for a bet.

@BlackSakura33 2 года назад

Charitable!! Looks like you live inside a well called america. It has absolutely nothing to do with charity and everything to do with buisness my dear 3 year old child.

@Jone952 2 года назад

@@BlackSakura33 well whatever the reason for the wealth disparities, demand for metals from poorer countries contribute to their prices too. So really the bet was about the world's ability to efficiently utilize scarce resources.

@peterb_nonumbers 2 года назад

Not really. The price of metals is a lot less affected by population growth, than it is access, new technologies, international agreements and of course demand, which is not really moved by population growth, as the growth is mainly happening i poor communities. The poor countries might also have an increased demand, but not a demand corresponding with the growth, had it been in ex. the US or Europe. That means, for Ehrlich to be right, we have to keep people in poverty forever.

@Jone952 2 года назад

@@peterb_nonumbers China? Taiwan? Korea? Japan? India? Demand is strong and so is population growth in developed countries

@mehdi4704 2 года назад

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@carsondubs 2 года назад

Ronald Reagan laughing hysterically at the idea of a wildfire is the most Ronald Reagan thing I've ever scene

@aarone1777 2 года назад

Regain couldn't tie his own shoes. He'd kept working on it if Nacy hadn't exsplained to him he had on loafers!

@Blaqjaqshellaq 2 года назад

The most harmful of US presidents.

@hamzaasif911 2 года назад

*seen

@probert2436 2 года назад

Reagan deregulating the phones is the reason you were able view the video of him laughing. It created the cell phone market, massive battery tech jumps, hybrid cars, Tesla, and the solar boom. Like him or not he should be viewed as the greatest Environmental President of all time - by a mile.

@iruns1246 2 года назад

@@probert2436 wow... what a MASSIVE leap of imagination you have there friend...

@ronatlas2055 2 года назад

Love the Beatles reference with the submarine

@AaryaGhuge 2 года назад

Wowwww the editing and the narrating is amazing!!

@srushtishetty16 2 года назад

I always love the animations, but must mention that the narrator has done a fantastic job in this one ❤️

@thesong7877 2 года назад

A key thing here, was that a substitute for the the usage of those metals was something we even *could* invent. We can talk about what might happen if human ingenuity accomplishes a given task, but we should not assume that it is possible for us to do so, or that it will happen even if it is possible.

@buca117 2 года назад

If there's one thing I'm willing to bet on, its humanity's drive for self preservation. Darwin Award winners notwithstanding, the last 12,000 years of human history has seen humans devise ever-increasingly ingeneous solutions to the problems it has created for itself. Betting against humanity's ability to dig itself out of problems is betting against the same species that spent less than a decade going from "no such thing as rocket science" to "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Its betting against the same species that went from the 120ft-long first flight of the Wright Brothers to the first jet airplane in less than a generation. Humanity has found a way to survive the harshest climates in nature, from flash-freezing lows to molten-rock highs, from pure vacuum to miles under the ocean. We survived the industrial revolution's impact on food production requirements when Malthus first made his doomsaying claims, we managed to bitterly hate each other without annihilating ourselves for sixty years, and, bad as everything we're going through is right now, we also managed to churn out an effective, low risk vaccine to a deadly disease using tested but as yet unproven methods in less than a year. We're doing okay. We're humans: hard to get off our asses, but properly motivated, capable of doing things so unimaginably miraculous that generations that follow literally can't believe it happened.

@CyanicCore 2 года назад

Throughout this time metal prices may have dropped, but could that not nearly mean what they thought? In addition to trade sanctions, processing, and markup, our ability to and resources for extracting metals has increased significantly. In this case, the prices may not have rose because we're taking from what would be the future supply.

@kmatlockii 2 года назад

Absolutely. Not to mention that the ability to extract finite resources at a greater rate is exactly inverse to the concept of long-term sustainability. Borrowing from the future makes a population collapse all that much more likely.

@xornxenophon3652 2 года назад

@@kmatlockii Why do you think that metals are a finite resource? They do not evaporate into nothingness after all. So it is just a question of how much effort you need to reuse the metal (which is already done for many metals, especially copper, silver and gold).

@tavernburner3066 2 года назад

that's not how resources work.

@user-qi3rm2wr5m 2 года назад

I think (assumption) recycling rate is still very low. People pushing for "circular economy" has not been successful anywhere yet.

@xornxenophon3652 2 года назад

@@user-qi3rm2wr5m It is not that low. There are metals where recycling rate is near or even over 50 percent, especially copper, silver, gold, platinum and the like.

@pranaypallavtripathi2460 2 года назад

Wow that was informative and well animated.

@SM-yy2vg 2 года назад

Just love the illustrations.

@MikeJBeebe 2 года назад

The Malthusian Bargain hasn't mattered since the Haber-Bosch Process was discovered and implemented on an industrial scale. The only limit to human population growth is access to potable water and the amount of food density per unit of arable land.

@mobilegamesonly3170 2 года назад

I disagree, thats what it use to be. Now it is more of the transportation of those resources.

@samdumaquis2033 2 года назад

Party true, as it is much more complexe than that as spécies that make the earth fertile (worms for example) are killed by pesticides

@GuitarRocker2008 2 года назад

Going by how much water we have on Earth and assuming it was absolutely required that we turned all of it into drinking water we would have the capacity for 360,000,000,000,000,000,000 people and due to already pre-existing water filtration systems you wouldn't need more fresh water because it would just be filtered back round, however that is in the extreme case and even the most Zealous Malthusian doesn't think we'd ever reach that number of people on Planet Earth.

@haze300 2 года назад

/ The only limit to human population growth is access to potable water// How about desalination?

@antred11 2 года назад

We're rapidly destroying and destabilizing our ecosystems. Should we push them over the brink and into full-blown collapse, you will find out what the real limits to growth on a finite planet are.

@irvinsaulfuentesreyes1578 2 года назад

I like these kind of videos because I'm learning english and with these videos I'm learning pretty much

@kimmycassie 2 года назад

That was short yet really simple! I really love it

@miriambaciu3946 2 года назад

A great video, congratulation!

@eve_______ 2 года назад

Simon was too focused on unknown variables, while Ehlrich didn’t account for them at all. I say it is better to be safe than sorry and to try to decrease the consumeristic culture while looking for new alternatives.

@beactivebehappy9894 2 года назад

Exactly. The conclusion of this video seem to give two-forked ways, Like this or that. Why can’t we decrease the consumer hungry footfall Along with controlling the exploitation by bad alternatives.

@thepostapocalyptictrio4762 2 года назад

This is once again a reminder that TED is not unbiased and definitely has taken a side in these issues, mostly the side of technocapitalism.

@jcas 2 года назад

You would cause unemployment and raising poverty levels. The main problem of people giving solutions is that they usually don´t count for every single aspect that their solutions have impact into.

@mobilegamesonly3170 2 года назад

@@jcas That is nearly the only problem.

@iruns1246 2 года назад

@@beactivebehappy9894 I think "consumer hungry footfall" falls into the category of "unsustainable practices", which they mentioned at the end. Of course it's pretty open to interpretation.

@reesehendricksen269 2 года назад

The issue with the population bomb is that it ignores population stagnation. That as a population becomes wealthy enough the children born to it decreases and even stabilizes. It is currently theorized that the global population will reach an equilibrium at around 11-13 billion people, meaning that within our lifetimes we will most likely see the end of population growth. Similar to solution solubility equations, rates will balance out.

@user-vn7ce5ig1z 2 года назад

Those estimates are BS by narrow-minded, short-sighted, well-off lissencephalitic people. They obviously don't realize that food isn't the only resource there's a shortage of EVEN NOW (eg jobs, land, teachers, doctors, transportation, etc.), let alone that resource-shortage isn't the only problem caused by human overpopulation; it causes many problems that cannot be solved with more resource or better distribution. Even 5B is too much.

@sandal_thong8631 2 года назад

There's no way we can provide a European lifestyle to 8 billion, let alone more than 10 billion people. Think of everything you use in a week and multiply that by 10 billion: cell phones, TVs and computers, disposable plastic wrappers and utensils, A/C, car with gasoline, etc. To meet the demand would destroy the environment.

@pritapp788 2 года назад

@@user-vn7ce5ig1z thank you for that. You've described perfectly what I'm at pains to explain. It is not simply a matter of having enough to feed 7, 9, 11 or 20 billion mouths, but all else. Saying "we have enough to feed everyone!" is just a cop-out. And let's not forget the Ponzi-style pension schemes set up after the two World Wars, which require a large working population to be sustained.

@ilovespongebob7840 Год назад

@@sandal_thong8631 i love it when people think that rest %80 of world lives in north american/european life sytle

@sandal_thong8631 Год назад

@@ilovespongebob7840 What's the meaning of that statement? I can't tell which part is the sarcastic emphasis on.

@god9621 2 года назад

Thanks , this gives me a better perspective

@ultraali453 Год назад

Thank you for making this video

@naryanr 2 года назад

a particularly good story in this one.

@bomenorange. 2 года назад

I always had interest on this topic, i think when it comes to population, quality is far more important than quantity from now on. Never understood why a married couple would want so many children in this century.

@sandal_thong8631 2 года назад

Elderly people rely on their son(s) and his(their) wife(wives) to take care of them, so need lots of sons. One solution is Social Security to protect seniors, which doesn't exist in the economic south.

@gusstavv 2 года назад

@@sandal_thong8631 That's the real problem. We need to learn when to leave this planet and not just wait for death while our children and grand^n-children or the society carries the burden of sustaining a dying person who isn't enjoying a life with quality. "Living" a life while pooping your pants and having dementia is death on life.

@sandal_thong8631 2 года назад

@@gusstavv That sounds good, but there just aren't enough people that fit that description to have an impact, and not too many 70-year-olds are having children! I looked it up: since 1950, deaths have ranged from just below 50 million/year to 60 million/year while births have ranged from 100 million/year to 140 million/year. We've got to hit the other end, banning teenagers from having children and incentivizing women not to have them until 30. My grandfather used to believe in zero-population growth, but when that didn't happen 1950-1980, he then believed in negative population growth. Getting births down to below 50 million/year still seems far-fetched.

@1Thunderfire 2 года назад

@@sandal_thong8631 Seems a bit selfish, having children with the expectation that they must care for you later in life. And why sons anyway?

@sandal_thong8631 2 года назад

@@1Thunderfire In the developing world the daughter leaves home to live with her husband and take care of his parents.

@idk-db4rh 2 года назад

AMAZING VIDEO I LOVE UR CHANNEL U MAKE FEEL SMART

@lisapanda4970 2 года назад

How do you make these video drawings ?? It's so beautiful ❤️ can you please share the softwares used ??

@anonymousdude2550 2 года назад

I wonder if I was Simon... I too have optimistic view but when it comes to climate change I contradict myself, but my brother and a friend says humans will find a way out of-to survive. Still, it's depend on who will live and who will die...?

@BS-bd4xo 2 года назад

i feel you man i hope we will make it to like 2070

@2bfrank657 2 года назад

I expect mankind will survive climate change. The real question is "what kind of world will we survive in" though.

@anonymousdude2550 2 года назад

@@2bfrank657 A extremely divided one

@divat10 2 года назад

@@2bfrank657 yeah the luxury most of us have will probably be lost and regained by 2200

@divat10 2 года назад

@Wary of Extremes yeah that is like the last thing our infrastructure needs

@archismanbhaumik5397 2 года назад

Thanos, if you're watching this, you should have done your research, man.

@electronresonator8882 2 года назад

yeah, he could just snap to double resources, or even better...according to this video...distribute the resource equitably

@Dimetropteryx 2 года назад

Thanos should have taken a basic biology course before settling on the brilliant plan to reduce the world population to what it was in the early 1970s. You know, from where it doubled on its own over the next 40 years.

@aesyamazeli8804 2 года назад

It's not a problem if the plan is to kill half of the intelligent species but he really drop the ball when he kill half of every species in existence. That just halved the resources!

@amolsharma3413 2 года назад

love the new narrator+ the animation style

@YouAndImpact 2 года назад

Nice video 👌

@jamesquinlan7197 2 года назад

@TED-Ed could you make a video on why you should read “The Count of Monte Cristo” or “A Tale of Two Cities”?

@pritapp788 2 года назад

"The Three Musketeers" is my all-time favorite, "Count of Monte Cristo" is great too. On the other hand I could never develop much of an interest in "A Tale of Two Cities".

@SunniDae333 2 года назад

Wish I was alive in the 80s, I would've gotten in on that bet.

@marcalcaraz931 2 года назад

you can get in now, just open an account on a broker and go to the futures market.

@jakovcu 2 года назад

Erlich is Still around with Same ideas that were proven to be wrong. You can bet him today, he has not learned anything.

@qhebokasumi6223 2 года назад

At 00:36 the expiration date on the milk was 1984! So funny!! The context, the subtlety. Wow!

@qhebokasumi6223 2 года назад

Wait! I just finished the video. Simon won because he was lucky?! Wtf!!!! I don't even know how to react or even respond!

@GajanaNigade 2 года назад

Yess... Avi is back!

@robbieaulia6462 2 года назад

The fact that 40% of US food goes to waste every year. And there are 300 million people living in the US, which means that the US waste food that could be used to feed 240 million people each year, and that number is only growing. This says a lot about our understanding of overpopulation, not to mention the fact that 90% of farmland is used to feed animals which their meat only makes up for 10% of our diet. The limit of population is not close from being reached in my opinion. And if you say that we may ran out of trees to produce oxygens, well algae makes up 40% of all oxygen production on Earth, and Algae can be grown easily.

@mimsydreams 2 года назад

It really is a distribution problem; There are enough resources for everyone, and then some. The people who control those resources, do so for profit. We have 108 billion pounds of food wasted each year in the US alone, because those who "own" the food source, delivery, and distribution, feel they can't make a profit from it.

@Aaa-wf6cg 2 года назад

Food is not the problem

@sachinsurya007 2 года назад

Most of the food that goes to waste is grains which are easy to farm. Just because some type of food goes to waste doesn't mean there is no overpopulation

@viviviv7325 2 года назад

Don't worry, the US is losing around 40% of our food sources due to drought in the west.

@DivinesLegacy 2 года назад

@@sachinsurya007 food is food. Calories are calories.

@owencrowley6769 2 года назад

Kind of prejudicial to imply nuclear energy as an “unsustainable” source of energy with an implication of pollution via the steam stack. All energy even the “green” energy of solar and wind produce vast amounts of waste. If anything nuclear energies efficiency is what makes it a better option than others

@ForAnAngel 2 года назад

What wastes do solar and wind power produce?

@DumbConstellations 2 года назад

Hey, I don’t think that’s a nuclear power plant. Then again, I’m not exactly sure, do nuclear power plants even produce such gases? Seems more like a fossil fuel plant

@adrianvecina7738 2 года назад

Large fossil fuel plants also have steam stacks 🤦‍♂️

@owencrowley6769 2 года назад

Time stamped 4:17 that is the classical depiction of a nuclear power plants cooling tower in the upper left corner. Next to it is I would deduce is some kind of fossil fuel power plant. As for waste produced by “green” energy sources those would be the material mined to construct the devices and the devices themselves when they cease to be productive.

@ForAnAngel 2 года назад

@@owencrowley6769 Do you even hear yourself? The material mined to construct the devices wouldn't be "waste" as they would be the material used to construct the devices. Also, you can hardly call the waste from the devices becoming obsolete "vast" if you compare it to nuclear which is producing waste the whole time it's operational. And not just waste that takes up space, but dangerous, radioactive waste. Also, if solar and wind turbines are constantly becoming obsolete, that would be a sign of rapid improvement in efficiency in those industries as a whole, which would be a good thing, obviously.

@unicorbi337 2 года назад

E não é que teu vídeo chegou aqui no Brasil meus amigos me falaram do teu canal aí comecei a assistir é gostei.

@Aldarionz9 11 месяцев назад

for example there was a field of grass farm in the 12th century,then that farm family kept populating over the generations and they had to keep building houses on that field. They had no where else to grow much of a garden anymore. They had but to crowd in the cities.The cities became crowded too.Rents and demands for housing costs went up because of demand. San francisco is one example.

@akshaytiwari4994 2 года назад

Fascinating video but I still want to know, why exactly did the price of metals decrease? It could be due to the increase of credit system, less reliance on metals & technology innovation. But I would love to hear a Ted-Ed-styled explanation for this?

@anthonybrunsvold4482 2 года назад

No metals are commodities. Their price is mostly controlled by supply and demand. Simon was betting that we could either find more or find substitutes allowing supply to increase as demand for them went up with the population. That is what happened. That is why both agreed to the bet. They both agreed that if supply outstripped demand (via an increase population) that would put a lid on price. If demand exceeded supply that would cause the price to go up.

@mamauk1 Год назад

Human technological innovation came on in leaps during that time with new ways to increase efficiency of metal extraction and amount of meatal extracted. Also some metals were replaced by other materials as technology developed, ie tin was replaced with aluminum and cabling used glass and fibre glass instead. These drove prices down as scarcity decreased.

@shariq_riyaz 2 года назад

Ehrlich :- England wouldn't exist in 2000 England in 2021 :- I shifted to a parallel universe, due to over population.

@wduprevil 2 года назад

Ehrlich wasn't totally wrong . If you look up the population of England in the early 2000 and now it has almost doubled. Next time you go to the supermarket see how many produce is imported from other countries. How is the NHS going to support all these new people. Traffic has gotten worse and the metro is more packed then ever. Having more people around causes all kinds of tension in society.

@1Thunderfire 2 года назад

@@wduprevil This right here. When people talk about managing overpopulation, it feels like they only ever look at it in terms of food production. And some governments baffingly want people to have more children, purely for the sake of the economy, never mind about finance and lack of availability of jobs. (Unemployment exists yet many people are unable to get jobs for various reasons. This hardly benefits the economy.) Little about severe over-crowding, energy usage, housing, waste produced, etc is ever said (and the costs of that is significant). And we can't keep taking over more land because then we're just depriving animals of their habitats, leading to even more extinction. We can cut back all we want but the fact remains we have added several billion more people than the last century and you can only cut down so much. We need to start naturally reducing our overpopulation.

@wduprevil 2 года назад

@@1Thunderfire yes overpopulation is multi layered problem but food the big problem. I saw a documentary recently that explained that the land mass of many countries is not enough to sustain their current population if exports were to be cut off. Think of if, produce like bananas, oranges, avocados and many more which don't grow in Europe would no longer be on the shelves. That's only possible because of fossil fuel. These products are flown or shipped from far away countries. Guess what when things get tough most countries will keep their food to feed their own people they won't sell it to other nations. we have to willingly reduce family size and for some to not have any kids at all.

@Sterlinxvii 2 года назад

Please next episode

@johnhemenway8202 2 года назад

I absolutely loathe that the extreme limit at which earth can sustain human life is central to the overpopulation debate - rather than the imbalance at which human activity begins to impact the environment and other species in ways from which they cannot sustainably recover. The sweeping negative effects of human activity are already here and are still getting worse. The debate has been anthropocentric which has negated the fact that we are severely straining an environmental system on which all life is dependent. Sure we can endure more people for now - but is that what the earth really needs? More stress/impact on its climate? No and it hasn't been for a long time. We need to seek balance, not the extreme limit.

@mathyslacombe50 2 года назад

"The metals' prices decreased" *copper has joined the chat*

@hayavictoria9625 2 года назад

We have more than enough food for everyone , our food factories are over producing yet a big amount of the population i not being fed, the problem is selling foods in a high price and not letting it be around for communities to take it depends on your mind set , mindset A : you can think of food as a thing to share and something we need or, mindset B: food can be a way of making money, I believe that food MUST be free since it is an obvious need . pls tell me your ideas :)

@paulgaither 2 года назад

We only have so much food because it isn't free. Cost plays a part, but this is a supply chain issue. Covid proved that many times over. Even if there were government subsidies which made food free, there would still be starvation because it isn't easy to get it everywhere it needs to go.

@Yusa_Beach 2 года назад

@@paulgaither Isn't that the time to make food factories that spread around the country instead of being made in just one place? Having a Diverse food export?

@paulgaither 2 года назад

@@Yusa_Beach - Do you really think all food is made in one place? Do you understand how efficient production is? Finally, you still don't understand supply chain. You aren't going to open up a farm and factory and white foods (and everything in between) just anywhere, such as the highlands of Peru. Life isn't Sim City.

@Yusa_Beach 2 года назад

@@paulgaither I mean all i did was ask 2 questions. I didn't really "say" exactly anything. Instead of getting on someone because they didn't know something, how about tell them how it works or what to exactly look up that shows them exactly how it works? Would be helpful you know.

@kappadarwin9476 Год назад

It is obvious, if your workers don't have their needs met you will get a less productive work force. So its better for everyone businesses included to make sure food and childcare is available for everyone. The B mindset is pretty heartless and is sadly what a lot of business owners think because for some reason they believe if you give out free food people will become lazy and dependent on handouts.

@rickosatriyo2255 6 месяцев назад

25 Pages of reading material could be summarized under 5 minutes, great job TED ED!

@alparslankorkmaz2964 2 года назад

Nice video.

@shouryajaiswal8655 2 года назад

India is one of the countries who had the fastest population growth in last few decades and prices of goods also rosed during this period but it was in relation with inflation that the country increase to tackle the growing population . well I am sure the rate would decrease asthe youngest generation has not interest having many childrens

@KonniWynn 2 года назад

India is still an exploited country

@shouryajaiswal8655 2 года назад

@@KonniWynn yeah India is fully using there resources but fertility rate us dropping fast in southern states of india

@BatCostumeGuy 2 года назад

@@KonniWynn Brazil, Argentina and India, all 3 have one thing in common, currupt politicians.

@user-vn7ce5ig1z 2 года назад

India "solved" their problem just like China did, by abusing student and work visas as loopholes to send millions of people to other countries to stay forever and then sponsor their families to go over too.

@shouryajaiswal8655 2 года назад

@@user-vn7ce5ig1z I disagree countries invites young amazing minds to their country also It's easy to satisfy Indians easily too

@globisdead 2 года назад

At this point kurzgesagt and TED Ed must be working together behind the scenes cause the way they've been posting within an hour of each other for the last few uploads👀

@Human_traain 2 года назад

Ofc they are

@anonymousdude2550 2 года назад

Is there any updated video by Ted Ed on "life is a simulation?" I asked this because I think it's simulator who wanted me to watch this video for something to be done... It's becoz in these days I'm reading economy and many concepts related to this video... Is a great coincidence or is simulation real? Let's find out in future videos of Ted 😁. BTW it's good to see that Ted Ed shown Greata in problems related to environment.

@vynce9045 2 года назад

Life can't be a simulation. Where would that simulation take place? Inside a computer. But that simulating computer has to exist somewhere. So there has to be an actual non-simulated life. Inside another simulation? Then, where does this meta-simulation take place? Even after a million meta-simulation you need a non-simulated reality. This one here.

@anonymousdude2550 2 года назад

@@vynce9045 today while bathing, I was also thinking this that we might be first ones who will simulate.

@johnkop4 2 года назад

I find it hard to believe that consciousness can be artificially created

@anonymousdude2550 2 года назад

@@johnkop4 how can you forget about AI? 🙄

@gallaxylhlovehope1051 2 года назад

I been questioning my self if over population is not a problem, but yeah you answered a piece that I have ignored, distribution is surely need to be changed

@sandal_thong8631 2 года назад

If the world was a representative democracy, they'd vote to move resources to the economic south, but without population control (either poor people can't have kids or 4 grandparents: 3 grandchildren policy) they'd keep having children and poverty wouldn't end. It would be like some African cultures where one guy with a job has to spend all his money across all the extended family and cousins that don't work, instead of leaving them and moving his wife and kids into the middle class. (Maybe taking his parents with him, since no Social Security.)

@briane4753 2 года назад

I was disappointed at the “yeah, but…” tone of this video. Julian Simon convincingly won, it wasn’t even close, and even much broader indices of human welfare have all continued to rapidly improve in the absence of political interference. Global poverty rates have plummeted in the years since, access to clean drinking water increased, child mortality has dropped, the price of technological goods has cratered. Making sure that everyone has access to this ever expanding pie while dealing with the impacts of scale (billions needing more electricity is worse with coal than with renewables) are the big challenges and are primarily political in nature, not inherent to either population size, technologies or market economics.

@blugaledoh2669 2 года назад

I don't see the problem, there are still many problem despite many of our successes.

@juanpedro7303 2 года назад

The way I see it (not that I disagree with you), is that even if the levels of poverty drops doesn't necessarily mean that global warming is going to drop as well. The case is that yes, he won the bet but the point was more complicated than that.

@mobilegamesonly3170 2 года назад

@@juanpedro7303 At the same time, who is to say climate change is even a bad thing? According to the maps I have seen, my area will actually get greener. I live in a desert. Twice as many people each year die to cold than heat. Of course its not all good, but is it worth it. If people wanted to stop climate change anyway, there are easy ways such as nuclear.

@juanpedro7303 2 года назад

@@mobilegamesonly3170 I think that's a good reasoning but if a desert changes his ecosystem, many of the living things that were specifically adapted to that specific environment will suffer. Of course, extinction is something normal in nature, but not as quickly and steady like the period were we live in.

@mobilegamesonly3170 2 года назад

@@juanpedro7303 Of course, but I value human life over animal life. Animals do affect humans, but it is hard to say positive or negative. And when these animals die, new ones will move in.

@zedwms 2 года назад

This is a naïve view. It took man ~200,000 years to grow from ~2 to 2.5 billion, and now it has only taken us 65 years to triple that population to 7.5 billion. Nothing in our 200,000 years of experience prepares us for this, and we are handling it very, very poorly. We are innovative, but there are many critical issues that are quickly reaching their tipping point. Check out Enrico Fermi's Great Filter.

@rickrolluniversity2237 2 года назад

Ted ed should make a movie, each sequel use different type of animation style

@MasterCivilEngineering 2 года назад

Your videos are Awesome💯💯

@fortune_roses 2 года назад

In an apocalypse, not sure if a gold necklace would have much use

@panda_invention1810 2 года назад

😔

@user-vn7ce5ig1z 2 года назад

… until you really need a catalyst.

@joenoneofyourbusiness6487 2 года назад

actually, gold would be one of the few things you could trade for goods or services. I wouldn't toss your gold necklace out yet.

@GuitarRocker2008 2 года назад

Thanos: OVERPOPULATION WILL LEAD TO STARVATION AND DESTRUCTION! Science: Nah you're just nuts and want an excuse to kill a load of people mate.

@DriftRacing77 2 года назад

No one said to kill anybody! We should all be raising less children!

@sr.patata8817 2 года назад

@@DriftRacing77 That's already happening, all developed and even developing countries such as Latin American countries are having fewer children, except for almost all Africa and some Asian countries.

@chriswhite702 2 года назад

@@DriftRacing77 Or what if we taught people to be good parents...

@burningphoneix 2 года назад

Egypt and Ethiopia are almost at war over water supplies.

@curranfrank2854 2 года назад

@@sr.patata8817 They'll get there too, it's just because most of those countries are currently developing countries which usually experience a population boom that then levels out as their citizens become more financially successful and educated

@Newdivide 2 года назад

There's a book called Make room! Make room! which focus on what if earth became overpopulated It was later adapted into the film soylent green starring Charleston Heston

@shaneleskinen2111 2 года назад

They both have some grounding. And I have to agree with both.

@nadie8093 2 года назад

Doublethink

@hazemdarwish8089 2 года назад

if food ran out... why not eat cake?

@BS-bd4xo 2 года назад

yes!

@SifuBillStewart 2 года назад

The undercurrent of this video's premise is obviously incorrect. While I would agree that the way the earths' population lives, consumes energy, and excretes both carbon and methane, is a bigger factor than simple population, that does not mean that it's all that matters. Endless economic and population growth is mathematically and obviously doomed to end with destroying earth as a habitat for humanity. We all need to dial down our lifestyles and decrease the number of people too.

@ashokwwf 2 года назад

1:24...good to see Michael Crichton in there....or any of your favorite author.

@rajdeepkashyap5766 2 года назад

This whole debate deserves a movie adaptation, not like a biopic style where one is wrong and other one is right. Equal Representation for both of them, as it's a clash between a preserver and an opportunist, battle between foresight and empathy & technological development vs thoughts of conservation.

@jakovcu 2 года назад

They will newer get Equal Representation, Erlich is favorite of media. He was wrong so many times, jet he is still everywhere on media while Simon is not.

@rajdeepkashyap5766 2 года назад

@@jakovcu yes because his predictions are coming true day by day and people started to realising. Even though it's your opinion but still to point out whole media is a vague generalization, contrary to what I said in the earlier comment. Hope "if" this gets an "adaptation" they do justice to the both side and stay away from confirmation bias as much as possible.

@jakovcu 2 года назад

@@rajdeepkashyap5766 Can you be more specific? Because non of Erlich predictions from that period did become true. Actually quite the opposite food production is so advanced that we can feed everyone, there are no mass starvation and food shortages like he predicted.

@rajdeepkashyap5766 2 года назад

@@jakovcu it did he said there will be unequal distribution of resources and he was also an environmentalist so he was also against deforestation also indicating that this activities will increase in future. Just because he lost the bet doesn't mean his all predictions were rubbish; I mean his predictions also contains, indirectly, about climate change and that's visible nowadays throughout.

@cozyflurry7807 2 года назад

You know you’ve watched too much TED ED when yoy can recognise every animation style

@thetruffleshuffle21 2 года назад

and here we are today with dwindiling rare metal supplies and scarece resources such as lithium

@KnowArt 2 года назад

next video on population collapse?

@user-gk2tp1cc1l 2 года назад

you read aloud "Stanford" but not the same of the other profs college

@glassapple5903 2 года назад

The amount of salt required to not write that man a letter lol

@mikaeusbznd744 2 года назад

We are not yet at the breaking point, so don’t think for a second this problem is solved. Famine can very well happen in the next decades in massive scale.

@ctcboater 2 года назад

I suspect that the lack of water will be the cause of critical food shortages in the future.

@KouNagai 2 года назад

Because of over population? No. Because of global warming, yes

@JamesCauchi 2 года назад

I believe this is more or less correct. A glance at other species reveals what happens following a period of unsustainable population growth. There is a die-off. While humans may have the tools to ensure that humans are 'less' impacted by this - and that a portion of humanity will be more 'shielded' from the consequences (which the cynic in me observes will drive a convenient source of cheap labour for corporations who's shielded shareholders are all about the bottom-line) - the hubris of those who are content to play the game will one day realize that their bridge of prosperity built upon the spines of those they have shove beneath them has grown so narrow that the balancing act grows in itself laborious - the world beyond their shrinking havens an abyss of their own creation. The world is but a pebble floating in space. Our existence is far from assured regardless of what we do - but we entirely do not require external factors as climate change to drive our impoverishment and demise.

@JamesCauchi 2 года назад

@@pedropradacarciofi2517 Do we have rational reason to think it will 'not' happen? Human population has increased by at least 250% in the past 50 years alone - which is but a blink of an eye in the context of human history alone, let alone that of the planet. When a person decides to hold their breath for the rest of time - that exercise might go well - for the first 30 seconds or so. Then reality begins to catch up fast and the person's lungs protest - and should that decision taken be outside of that person's hands to revert then in a matter of minutes lasting damage would manifest - and some time later, life leaves the body. Should a person go on a hunger strike, a comparable process plays out but slower. Should a species choose to over-draw from their pool of acquirable resources (in any of a number of ways - including population growth) then they will eventually come to a point where their choices come back to haunt them. In the absence of hard data, and deep understanding to know the contrary to be true - it is at best a gamble to bet on overpopulation and sustainability not being worthy of consideration or action.

@OliverJazzz 2 года назад

Many thanks James and Jason for sharing your informed points of view! Very refreshing in this sea of misinformation and empty barrels.

@geoffreydowdle5751 2 года назад

Thank you for acknowledging this isn't so simple. I'm tired of so many making this seem so obvious.

@notthetypicalK 2 года назад

We spend a lot exploring the universe enough to feed all people on earth, Estimated food waste every year is thousands tons. I don't know what and what to do next. 💔

@madmonkee6757 2 года назад

Always prioritize the environment. The economy does no good if one can't eat.

@chengkuoklee5734 2 года назад

I bet T'Challa made a similar presentation to Thanos in 'What If' imagine this video is voiced by Boseman.

@sandal_thong8631 2 года назад

I guess he met him before he went on his killing spree of halving populations.

@RedmercyGG 2 года назад

4:30 lol did he actually put a fly in it? savage lol 😂

@elohimelyonistruth6551 2 года назад

Nice animation

@janmaaso 2 года назад

September 2021: Price increases for raw metals is off the charts, exceptions for gold and silver. Temperatures have reached 50C in Canada this year(!) and forrest fires in California this year were the worst on recors, as is the drought. Australia, North America and Europe seem to take turns documenting the most extreme forrest fire season on record, only to be broken again the following year. Siberia just had the worst forest fire season ever recorded. An area the size of India was on fire! Perma frost has started to melt, and this will accellerate the climate warming all on its own even if we stop ALL release of greenhouse gasses now. This has reached a point of no return and will keep going no matter what we do about it. NOTE: these facts are NOT based climate models but on actual measurements. All of Asia is set to run out of fish as a food source by 2050. Just about all animals and plants have been farmed for a long, long time, and fish is next. Africas population is set to double by the year 2050. Coral reefs are dead. Dead. Immagine all trees and flowers being dead too! That is what the oceans look like right now. Nobody seems to care. Bees are dying at a record pace in California and there is no honey this year, but guess what? If they all die, there will be no FRUIT! Think about that for second. The largest animal on earth by the year 2100 is predicted to be dairy cows. I am 55 years old, and I am worried about MY future. I was preaching sustainability all my life, but I no longer do. It is too late. I was cycling and living car free, eating vegan for years, but I just bought a new car. Nobody seems to care about this anyways. Best of luck. Jan H. Maaso

@xornxenophon3652 2 года назад

"...I am 55 years old, and I am worried about MY future...". No need to worry, nature will repair all damage done. It will take her no more than some thousands of years, not even one million years.

@aesyamazeli8804 2 года назад

Just live happily under a rock. I did that after years of worrying about the planet but now I just accept the world and humanity as it is. It's nice under my rock. Very comforting.

@steampunkastronaut7081 2 года назад

How pitiful

@Ur2ez4me81 10 месяцев назад

Nothing you did or could do is going to change the planet. Do you morons not realize how big the earth is compared to us & how small the earth is compared to the sun. The earths climate is always changing nothing you can do to stop it

@nickbolas3081 2 года назад

"We have the resources to support a growing human population, but we're currently failing to distribute those resources equitably. And changing that should be our priority." This was very insightful to hear! It's exactly what we should be looking into.

@jordanthomas4379 Год назад

This was probably the dumbest part of the video, who is “we” in this equation? And what do you mean by “equitably”? If you are referring to equity, there are 2 different kinds, Equity of outcomes, or, Equality of opportunity, by definition if you want one you are against the other, if you want the ability to make all your own decisions, our outcomes will not be the same, it is not my responsibility or anyone else’s to distribute recourses to people, people can obtain these things for themselves, or by others to choose to give them over voluntarily, if you disagree, the only other direction is government tyranny, which makes everyone worse off, I am no utopian.

@newvision9694 2 года назад

I just love Ted videos

@SomeOne-hs8fd 2 года назад

That's pretty interesting........

@baldaction3510 2 года назад

Experts from the GIEC advocate for reducing population (not just limiting the growth).

@johnkop4 2 года назад

Do you have a source for that because as far as I'm aware they never agreed on anything like that

@destronia123 2 года назад

It's really not a question of whether we can sustain a higher population. It's more about whether we SHOULD keep increasing our numbers.

@carlogaytan7010 2 года назад

That has already been answered the new generations are having less children. It's more a question of how seriously we should take climate change. Climate change will doom us no matter how how high the population is.

@KonniWynn 2 года назад

???? wtf

@giotheflow 2 года назад

This guy ethics. Everyone else is just thinking with their genitals

@jordanthomas4379 Год назад

2:32 - just to add a few details you decided to leave out, it was Ehrlich who chose the commodities to bet on, (an assortment of metals), not Simon. And yes, the value of metals is massively important to food supply, nothing can be properly processed, transported, cleaned without the use of metals or without machines comprised of metal components, furthermore, what this bet succeeds to explain is that if commodities of long term stable supply are to become more scarce simultaneously over a given timeframe, they would without a doubt get more expensive, therefore the prices of said commodities would all increase, but during this bet, all the metals that Ehrlich chose instead went down in value, ALL OF THEM, in other words, commodities have not become more scarce over time, they have become more plentiful and available than ever before, even while our population has exploded in numbers.

@anshjaiswal8338 2 года назад

The China's new 3 child policy shown in the animation was a quite a reference!

@pdd3 2 года назад

Except China knows what they're doing. This TED Ed video made me unsubscribe to them. The quality of their research does not live up to the quality of their animations.

@sayanchakraborty2619 2 года назад

“We have the resources but are currently failing to distribute them equitably”. This seems to be the greatest problem to solve for years to come. Wealth in a few hands leaving masses in distress.

@XCM666 2 года назад

Your quote is incorrect. Most importantly, the narrator says "equitably" not "equally".

@sayanchakraborty2619 2 года назад

@@XCM666 Thanks for pointing out. Edited.

@addemup4044 2 года назад

Wealth isn't a zero-sum game.

@sandal_thong8631 2 года назад

Americans would flip out if they had to reduce energy and resource use (50%?) to European levels then both America and Europe reduce it another 50%, which is necessary to stop global warming. Second, I read much of population growth has occurred in Asia (India, China, Southeast Asia). Without population control, moving resources to billions of poor people accomplishes little. Like the story of India building a new freeway to relieve traffic and finding it was full and bumper-to-bumper the day it opened. Roads create traffic; you gotta get butts out of cars. We could provide a good standard of living for 3-4 billion people, but can't for 8-10 billion.

@harshkasliwal9490 2 года назад

Betting on metal price to bet for overpopulation and it wasn't very accurate Our experts are marvellous

@ssnful123 2 года назад

Tbf it was just a small bet, not like an actual experiment

@craigsurette3438 2 месяца назад

Considering im seeing huge numbers of people sawing catalytic converters out from under cars, ,and hacking the copper out of the plumbing in old houses today , often to payever growing rent in an ever shrinking number of apartments , Ehrlich needs another day in court

@thegeneralissimo470 2 года назад

I think it’s less a problem of global equity and more a problem of local stability and problems. People invest in stable nations, investments produce growth and goods, those goods produce more goods, and then it snowballs.

@azy7576 2 года назад

I think we can only solve the problmes that we see as problmes if we go by with the mentality that everything is fine we wouldn't be able to progress Simon might have won the bet but it was Ehrlich's mentality that resulted it

@anthonybrunsvold4482 2 года назад

Nope what Ehlirch missed is the human ingenuity part. That is why he was and is wrong. Simon doesn't believe everything is fine He believes humans can find solutions when things aren't fine.

@azy7576 2 года назад

@@anthonybrunsvold4482 fair enough

@azy7576 2 года назад

I'm rather unsure about that human ingenuity will solve every problme if we leave them unchecked ... But that's just my assumption

@heerupadhyay783 2 года назад

4:01 Greta thunberg!!!‽ Woah! Roald Dahl-ish animation!

@DalTak 2 года назад

Wasn’t Captain Planet made around this time?

@fahadkelantan 2 года назад

It's not about quantity but rather quality. Education, Education, Education..... Educated can self-sustain. BBC Horizon made a documentary with Sir David Attenborough. "How Many People Can Live On Planet Earth?"