Discussion on Population Growth and Pandemics

Reducing population growth, that's the, this big benefit.

The key thing you can do to reduce population growth is actually

improve health.

In the developed countries, the big winners are countries

that have shrinking

populations.

I would like to reduce the number of people on the planet,

because there's too many of us.

When we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles and

reduce population-

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, what the-

More of our children can breathe clean air and drink clean

water.

What the fu-

Now, the world today has six point eight

billion people.

That's headed up to about nine billion.

Now, if we do a really great job on new

vaccines,

healthcare, reproductive health services, we could lower that.

We're taking things that are, you know, genetically

modified organisms, and we're injecting them in little kids'

arms.

We just shoot them right into the vein.

What the-

So in the next five to ten years, for the next pandemic, we,

we'll, we'll solve all those problems.

You say the next pandemic. There will be another pandemic?

Absolutely. We don't know when.

History teaches us that the next pandemic is a matter

of when, not if.

We know what's next. We're gonna have another major coronavirus

pandemic before the

end of this decade, before twenty thirty.

If we really wanna prevent the next pandemic, and

there will be one, there will absolutely be an outbreak

of another pandemic. It may be next year.

We need more money to plan for the second pandemic.

There's gonna be another

pandemic.