WEBVTT - The End Of The World with Josh Clark Series Preview

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, brain Stuff Listeners. As a bonus for you today,

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<v Speaker 1>I want to share with you a preview from my

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<v Speaker 1>compatriot Josh Clark. You may know him from a little

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<v Speaker 1>show called Stuff you Should Know. He's got a new

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<v Speaker 1>podcast series out on existential risks, threats that could bring

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<v Speaker 1>humanity to a sudden and untimely end in the near future.

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<v Speaker 1>So here's a preview featuring a clip about our potential

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<v Speaker 1>to spread from Earth. I'm Stuff you Should Know, as

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<v Speaker 1>Josh Clark. I'm launching a teen part podcast series about

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<v Speaker 1>all the ways humanity might accidentally wipe ourselves right out

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<v Speaker 1>of existence. It covers everything from whether we're alone in

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<v Speaker 1>the universe to the evolution of life on Earth, from

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<v Speaker 1>artificial intelligence to what goes on inside a particle collider.

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<v Speaker 1>It is an immensely interesting deep dive into the world

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<v Speaker 1>of existential risks, and I hope that you enjoy listening

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<v Speaker 1>to it as much as I have, making I want

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<v Speaker 1>to share a preview of the series with you. This

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<v Speaker 1>clip comes from episode four and it features economist Robin Hansen,

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<v Speaker 1>creator of the Great Filter hypothesis, which is something we

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<v Speaker 1>may have to contend with in the near future when

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<v Speaker 1>we settled down, our cities developed. Agriculture can support more

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<v Speaker 1>people than hunting and gathering, and the more people there are,

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<v Speaker 1>the more brilliant ideas there are two, So our civilization

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<v Speaker 1>began to advance by leaps and bounds in the last

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<v Speaker 1>nine or ten thousand years. Ideas spread more quickly among

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<v Speaker 1>those people who lived together in those new cities, so

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<v Speaker 1>innovations were able to develop over the span of a

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<v Speaker 1>handful of years rather than millennia. Almost everything we have

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<v Speaker 1>in the world today can be traced back to our

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<v Speaker 1>collective decision to settle down and raise crops. It was,

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<v Speaker 1>to say the least, a sweeping change for us humans.

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<v Speaker 1>With our next great leap spreading out into space, we

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<v Speaker 1>are effectively doing the opposite of when we settled down

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<v Speaker 1>into cities. Rather than contracting, we will be expanding. From

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<v Speaker 1>that huge coming together, we will spread out. Over time,

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<v Speaker 1>humans will begin to colonize other planets, and generations of

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<v Speaker 1>little human babies will be borne on planets other than Earth.

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<v Speaker 1>They will be shaped by forces and experiences that no

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<v Speaker 1>earthbound human will have ever encountered, and they will learn

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<v Speaker 1>to adapt to their home planet just like we did.

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<v Speaker 1>We are quite capable of becoming all the things that

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<v Speaker 1>it's possible to become. Life that starts from us and

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<v Speaker 1>radiates out can not only spread to different places, that

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<v Speaker 1>can create different styles and techniques and cultures and approaches.

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<v Speaker 1>All of the life that you see on Earth started

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<v Speaker 1>out from a much smaller amount of variation, but with

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<v Speaker 1>time it could explore lots of different niches and ways

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<v Speaker 1>of living. And that's probably what would happen to us too.

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<v Speaker 1>If we're the only life around it, we can survive,

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<v Speaker 1>we will radiate, We will become diverse and different and

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<v Speaker 1>fill thousan million billion different niches of different ways of being.

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<v Speaker 1>Over time, perhaps their physical connection to humans on Earth

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<v Speaker 1>will become distant enough that new species of humans will form,

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<v Speaker 1>and the universe will be home to more than one

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<v Speaker 1>species of human again, just as it was fifty years ago.

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<v Speaker 1>We will become the aliens we seek, and later on

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<v Speaker 1>they might be surprised to learn that they came from

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<v Speaker 1>something that was simple and not as very It's odd

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<v Speaker 1>to think of, but humans are in an evolutionary bottleneck

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<v Speaker 1>of our own. Right now. There's only one species of us,

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<v Speaker 1>and with the exception of maybe half a dozen astronauts

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<v Speaker 1>on the International Space Station. At any given time, we

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<v Speaker 1>are all stranded on this island Earth. Those astronauts aboard

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<v Speaker 1>the I s S showed just the faintous beginnings of

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<v Speaker 1>our future. If we become a space faring species, all

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<v Speaker 1>of humanities eggs will no longer be in just the

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<v Speaker 1>one basket of Earth. Should some catastrophe befall those of

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<v Speaker 1>us here on Earth, there will be other humans living

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<v Speaker 1>elsewhere to carry on. We will begin to trickle from

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<v Speaker 1>our bottleneck and spread throughout the universe, and when we do,

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<v Speaker 1>we will have made it through the great filter. Colonizing

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<v Speaker 1>beyond Earth is something we should begin working on as

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<v Speaker 1>soon as we can, because Earth is vulnerable to a

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<v Speaker 1>wide variety of catastrophes that are pretty hostile to life,

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<v Speaker 1>things like exploding stars, the death of our son, even

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<v Speaker 1>Earth's own systems going haywire. Please join me for the

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<v Speaker 1>End of the World with Josh Clark. Listen and subscribe

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