Crash Course: World History S2E15 — Population, Sustainability, and Malthus: Crash Course World History 215

Population, Sustainability, and Malthus: Crash Course World History 215

Nov 7, 201412 min
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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

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Episode Summary

"Population, Sustainability, and Malthus: Crash Course World History 215" is episode 15 of Crash Course: World History season 2. It aired on November 7, 2014.