Who won the infamous overpopulation bet: Simon or Ehrlich? | TED-Ed

“Bill Gates says it over and over. Vaccines are the greatest return on investment I’ve ever had. And overpopulation is the biggest issue of our time. We need to reduce population.” In his own TED Talk, Gates explains how new vaccines, modern medicine, and reproductive health services could lower global population by 10 to 15 percent. They tried to walk it back. But in the next video, he’s repeating the same message… ‘Too many people. Too much strain. Reduce the numbers.’ So when people call it a