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The Michael Shermer Show · 2025-08-30 · 76 min · 13,128 words

Depopulation: The Silent Global Emergency

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You're listening to The Michael Shermer Show. Hey, it's time for another episode of the Michael Shermer Show, brought to you by, of course, the Skeptic Society and Skeptic Magazine. Hey, check it out. Here's an issue. We're still in print.

There's a lot of online magazines. I proudly uh announce that uh we've been in print since 1992. So that's super cool. You can go to any bookstore or just go to skeptic.com slash magazine and get your uh issues there or back issues all the way back to 1992. Uh anyway, okay, so today's episode I have a special topic uh for you today on

Oh, well, what is it on? Overpopulation or underpopulation or depopulation? Something's going on here that has just recently come to everybody's attention. I'm going to introduce this uh topic by reading uh one of my short columns from Scientific American from May 2016. Wow, so we're talking exactly nine years ago.

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