151: Unreleased Bonus Episode with David Kyle Johnson

This is a continuation of my conversation with Professor David Kyle Johnson from Episode 146.

Checkout Episode 146 if you want to catch up with our conversation prior to this Bonus Episode.

We agreed to meet up a third time to talk about economics and philosophy in Soylent Green since I hadn’t watched the movie. So we did just that in Episode 152. Check it out here: www.economicrockstar.com/soylentgreen

In this episode we touch on the following themes:

• Overpopulation
• Food scarcity
• Inefficient agricultural and meat production methods
• Euthanasia

Books:

• Make Room, Make Room: The Classic Novel of an Overpopulated Future by Harry Harrison
• The Population Bomb by Paul Erlich
• Mein Kamf by Adolf Hitler
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age by Theodore Schick and Lewis Vaughn

Movies:

• Soylent Green

TV Series:

• Black Mirror
• The Orville
• M.A.S.H.
• The Handmaid’s Tale

People:

• Socrates
• Plato

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