Everything You Know is About to Collapse - David Friedberg - #1084

You've said the future's gonna be epic. You're really optimistic about it when a lot of people are pretty worried. How come? I think people have had a tendency to be worried about the future because humans are programmed to be that way. We always were worried about some predator coming around the corner eating us.

Like we're we're tuned to survive, right? So we're tuned to always, there's always some existential threat to humanity. This goes back to kind of biblical eras. thousands of years ago, it was the the great flood that was about to come. There was the um you know the plague, the plague's gonna wipe us all out, uh, there's uh starvation.

You know, the late 19th century uh population was outstripping uh food supply. And there was this big belief that we were going to run out of food and there was this kind of rush to and and and the primary reason was all the world's fertilizer actually came from these guano fields off of the South American coast. So these giant islands covered in in poop. And they would the clipper ships would go down, they'd get all this poop and they'd bring it back to Europe and they'd use it as fertilizer to farm.

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