It is common to hear about the problems of overpopulation, but do we really have too many people? Do we have an acceptable number? Or might we even have too few?
Overpopulation or underpopulation?
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Toby Ord shows how we ignore the good side of having a large population, how we can weigh the benefits and drawbacks of having a large population, and how future technologies could create a moral imperative to massively increase our population in the 21st century and beyond.
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Podcasts from the Michaelmas Term Seminar Series 2011 at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
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