"Their Forecasts of Doom Were Wrong" - We Live In An Age Of Abundance

"Their Forecasts of Doom Were Wrong" - We Live In An Age Of Abundance | ARC Vision Series

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Alliance for Responsible Citizenship

Ай бұрын

"Since the dawn of industrial society, a great debate has raged over whether our resources are too scarce to cope with humanity or whether population growth and abundance is the key to releasing prosperity. Concerns about the human impact on the climate have led to resurgence of this debate and a rethinking of the way that we fundamentally relate to the natural environment."
Are we at peak humanity? Is it time to stop having children? Is it time to give up the conveniences of one life, or can humanity innovate to even greater abundance?
In this week's ARC Vision Film, we show that the forecasts of doom were wrong. Human ingenuity has sustained and created ever greater growth and abundance throughout the 20th century. Time and again, we have found solutions. Inventions that previous generations could not have imagined have led to centuries of progress. Year by year, we are finding solutions to our most intractable problems, from agriculture to technology to energy. There is a better story, and it is not one of scarcity, but one of abundance.
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@gregakokalj1904 Ай бұрын

We need more of this videos ARC. Thank you.

@arc_conference Ай бұрын

Thank you! We will keep posting so as many people can hear it as possible!

@hp.nickharvey Ай бұрын

Grateful for Jordan Peterson and his team that has thought me so much to be able to answer these important questions as well as his guests on his podcast. Many blessings also to the Daily Wire and the ARC for fighting for our rights for freedom by being so truthful and honest.

@arc_conference Ай бұрын

You are so welcome! It is an honour to speak truth in a time of such uncertainty and confusion.

@benjamineidam Ай бұрын

Great message!

@arc_conference Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@AidanDoyne Ай бұрын

Hear! Hear!

@fredflintstone5240 Ай бұрын

Stop burning gas and give up control over your lives to us, save the planet!!! (WEF)

@petewright4640 Ай бұрын

How does burning gas keep you free of been controlled. Surly you are controlled by the oil and gas industry. The Republican party sure is.

@AlikVolkov Ай бұрын

Great video

@arc_conference Ай бұрын

Thank you!

@Relax-us9tm Ай бұрын

A sorely needed message. Many thanks to the ARC team!

@donaldlococo954 Ай бұрын

Paul Ehrlich was dead wrong. In the past 25 years, crop yields have increased by 15% largely due to our wonderful CO2 levels. The carbon issue is also dead wrong ... dead if we get to net zero.

@wheel-man5319 Ай бұрын

Or we'll almost all die if we get to net-zero. There's no other way to get to net-zero.

@searchingfortruth619 Ай бұрын

Paul Erlichs impact on medicine cannot be understated, but being a genius microbiologist does not mean everything you say is pure genius.

@wheel-man5319 Ай бұрын

@searchingfortruth619 Then I hate to say it but he should have stayed in his lane. Because his continued support of the idea that we're experiencing overpopulation of humans is not just wrong, but murderously wrong.

@peterclark6290 Ай бұрын

Of course we do. Mankind has long had the keys to political and economic (plus Art and Science: the four pillars) sanity. It just can't quite grasp the simple fact that for our prototype only _distributed systems_ can work. The systems where all those individual decisions coalesce into a improving future. An understandable fear stifles personal autonomy in favour of acceptance by those who attempt to placate that fear. Advice: read up on Stoicism: death is inevitable, the purpose of life is to die with a huge bucket list completed. In the meantime a deep understanding of what Adam Smith brought to the table (pure genius btw) is the key. No loci of influence, power, greed can be tolerated. Open Markets.

@DanMarsden-gx3vn Ай бұрын

All very well if you live in the US. I'm watching this from Britain (a heavily overpopulated island - especially England). All is not well, I can tell you.

@Spiritis99 Ай бұрын

Thank you.

@raimondbrady3063 Ай бұрын

With great power comes great responsibility. When great power meets lacking or absolutely no responsibility, humanity wipes it's self out. Current times can be best described as a 16 year old behind a viper great power no responsibility or understanding = dangerous to self and others. Gov is the 16 year and shouldn't be trusted with such power. Just to be clear. This is why we have things in place to limit gov but they are no longer listening.

@arc_conference Ай бұрын

Great comment, great thought

@AT-os6nb Ай бұрын

all this abundance is possible if personal, corporate, and government greed for power and control (money) is recognised and reigned in.

@mustang607 Ай бұрын

Humans need to be more intelligent and more wise. We have the faculty of reason, yet more and more individuals are not using it as much, and that's terribly worrisome for the long-term.

@schalkvandermerwe3838 Ай бұрын

Upwards. Onwards.

@arc_conference Ай бұрын

Indeed!

@petewright4640 Ай бұрын

Species ste going extinct at an accelerating rate. Each species lost is irreversible. Our tec may allow continued growth but at what cost.

@freenations2229 Ай бұрын

Australian government yielding to facts, common sense and reality. Its latest energy strategy accepts natural gas as the “transition” fuel for power generation. Meaning there is no choice but to rely on gas to provide reliable power for the foreseeable future while the world develops any alternative power supply system. The intermittent solar and wind generation coupled with battery storage is a super expensive experiment. And we continue to rely on gas.

@arc_conference Ай бұрын

Yes, they are finally starting to move in the right direction

@petewright4640 Ай бұрын

@@arc_conferenceARC reveals it's true colours!

@rollthetape88 Ай бұрын

@2:50 how on earth will you alleviate poverty when wealth inquality is rapidly increasing?

@peterclark6290 Ай бұрын

Capitalism was Marx's word. He was right, the world has adopted it. The originating genius advocated for *Open Markets* for the exchange of wealth. The elites saw the threat of Adam Smith's ideas and opted for more of the same which means cyclical inequality. You're a member of a dumb species because Marx's solution led to greater inequality.

@wheel-man5319 Ай бұрын

In the last 25 years, we went from 1 in four people in absolute poverty, to less than 1 in 10. This was all achieved by free markets.

@chickweed4022 Ай бұрын

Curious question. Should the poorest be angry if they are getting wealthier, if they do not get wealthier as fast as the wealthiest? Our family is impoverished, and I have electricity, hot water, a cell phone, internet, and a (barely) working vehicle. Grocery shopping is sometimes difficult and I have to be careful, but I'm not in danger of starvation. I'm wealthier, by some standards, than the wealthiest person on earth 200 years ago. Many people around the world are more impoverished than I. But the overall wealth of even the impoverished in the poorest country is improving. So you ask how shall we alleviate poverty? Is poverty a graded curve or is it access to life-sustaining needs? If all the world can eat, live comfortably, read, and live in a happy family, what does it matter who has a private jet?

@28pbtkh23 Ай бұрын

@@chickweed4022 - well written. Your comment is excellent. So long as I, you and most of our fellow citizens have a reasonable standard of living, then we should not worry about the bogus ideal of 'equality.'

@28pbtkh23 Ай бұрын

Your assumption is wrong. I might increase my income by 15% in the next year, and so I am richer. You by contrast might increase your income by 60%. We now have increased wealth inequality between us, but we are both better off.

@carnakthemagnificent336 Ай бұрын

Look at the birth rates in western nations, and we can see that we need more babies, more INFORMED citizens.

@arc_conference Ай бұрын

Agreed!

@barrycarter8276 Ай бұрын

Western humanity may believe it needs more babies, but I’m fairly sure Gaia doesn’t think so, and like it or not Gaia will use nature’s way to cull. Is it possible for ARC to find a better story, in a word NO! Not with humanity still growing, with its ecological footprint requiring c3 Earth planets, to maintain its exponential consumption of energy and other extracted resources, along with uncontrolled externalities like pollution, not just plastic waste but human and animal excreta containing not just processed foods but the refined products of petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries, and this is on top of the waste these and other industrial processes create in the form of toxic waste poured and dumped continuously into the environment unsustainably. Thomas R. Malthus and Paul R. Ehrlich were NOT WRONG, just their timing being out. Malthus died in 1834. When alive he wouldn’t have know about free FINITE Flammable Fossils ((FFFF’s) source of humanity’s exponential rise in population and industrial and technological development) Hydrocarbons, and their effects on local and global transportation, or of the Haber-Bosch process resulting in the green revolution, or about debt and globalisation, or of Norman Borlaug’s high-yielding, disease-resistant dwarf wheat. When Paul R. Ehrlich wrote “The Population Bomb” he didn’t know about debt and globalisation, or Norman Borlaug’s high-yielding, disease-resistant dwarf wheat (it’s interesting to note that Borlaug only expected his development of semi-dwarf, high-yielding wheat, resistant to disease and stem breakage to help third world frequent sufferers of famine, not the rich world profiting from it as just another commodity). And Paul R. Ehrlich never advocated culling the population, in the near future nature will do that, as life sustaining resources wane. Humanity has become hubristic in oh so many ways, believing through its ingenuity and innovation it can always find a solution, so allowing it to continue to exponentially grow, but humanity cannot create energy, only change it from one form to another, and physics and Earth’s resources mean, you cannot run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely, but we don’t seem to have realised that yet, but we will, and it won’t be pleasant🤔 E&OE

@petewright4640 Ай бұрын

Why do we need more people!

@Apeiron242 Ай бұрын

Last time I was this early my girlfriend gave me dirty looks for a week

@spacemonkey-yj7ss Ай бұрын

so how do you account for the immediate effects of long chain carbons?

@applekidn1 Ай бұрын

Oh continue to be a npc and believe everything you were taught in school from your teachers and charlatans. Yep bet you also believe that all our lil and gas comes from fossil fuels. We’ll go on explain how. When the most abundant place in our solar system for oil and gas is Saturn. And don’t go n say they’re were plants and dinosaurs. Cause that’s a really big imagination you got there if you counter with that.

@barbaraseville4139 Ай бұрын

Like the ones that make your eyeglasses, iv tubing, bicycle tires, mercury-free dental fillings, lead-free water pipes, insulation for electrical wires, supply the infrastructure of your personal electronic devices…………?

@spacemonkey-yj7ss Ай бұрын

@@barbaraseville4139 yep the ones that are guaranteed to give you cancer and every other living organism from now until the sun swallows the earth.

@spacemonkey-yj7ss Ай бұрын

@@barbaraseville4139 stupid is as stupid does. you cant fix stupid

@applekidn1 Ай бұрын

@@barbaraseville4139 you got him by the balls there. He’s just an uneducated peasant