Crash Course World History World History 2 Episode 15 Population, Sustainability, and Malthus 2014
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 coming up when we talk about population. In 1800, the human population of the Earth passed 1 billion, and Thomas Malthus posited that growth had hit its ceiling, and the population would level off and stop growing. He was totally right. Just kidding, he was totally wrong! There are like 7 billion people on the planet now! John will teach a little about how Malthus made his calculations, and explain how Malthus came up with the wrong answer. As is often the case, it has to do with making projections based on faulty assumptions. Man, people do that a lot.
- Released: 2014-11-07
- Runtime: 12 minutes
- Genre: Documentary
- Stars: John Green
- Director:
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1. Rethinking Civilization 2014-07-11
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2. Money & Debt 2014-07-17
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3. Disease! 2014-07-24
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4. War & Human Nature 2014-07-31
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5. War and Civilization 2014-08-09
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7. Humans and Energy 2014-08-28
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8. Drought and Famine 2014-09-05
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9. How World War I Started 2014-09-12
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10. Who Started World War I 2014-09-20
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13. Asian Responses to Imperialism 2014-10-24
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15. Population, Sustainability, and Malthus 2014-11-07
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16. Islam and Politics 2014-11-14
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18. Luther and the Protestant Reformation 2014-11-29
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19. Charles V and the Holy Roman Empire 2014-12-05
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20. World War II, A War for Resources 2014-12-14
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21. Congo and Africa's World War 2015-01-16
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22. Water and Classical Civilizations 2015-01-21
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23. Conflict in Israel and Palestine 2015-01-28
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24. The Vikings! 2015-02-04
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26. Iran's Revolutions 2015-02-26
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28. Nonviolence and Peace Movements 2015-03-13
