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Eight Billion Minds: Unsustainable Population Bomb or Infinite Resource?

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Hubwonk host Joe Selvaggi talks with Cato Scholar and author Marian Tupy about his new book, Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet, focusing on the contrast in policy perspectives between those who see humans as consumers of finite resources and those who recognize the unlimited potential of human ingenuity.


Guest:


Marian Tupy is the editor of HumanProgress.org, a senior fellow at the CATO Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, and coauthor the Time Abundance Index. He specializes in globalization and global well-being and the politics and economics of Europe and Southern Africa. He is coauthor of Ten Global Trends Every Smart People Should Know: And Many Others You Will Find Interesting. His articles have been published in the Financial Time, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Time, the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Newsweek, the UK Spectator, Foreign Policy, and various other outlets in the US and overseas. Tupy received his BA in international relations and classics from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg South Africa, and his PhD in international relations from the University of St Andrews in Great Britain.

Host:
Joe Selvaggi
Guest:
MTMarian Tupy