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As Medical Science and Technology advance so do human lifespans and as scientists continue
to make technological breakthroughs life expectancy will keep rising,
but what happens when people start living longer than ever before? No longer dying from old age
where will we go what will we eat won't we all be squished together like sardines calm down me you
don't want to go pop a pixel! let's talk about why overpopulation might not be an oversized issue!
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In the pre-modern world, life expectancy was just 30 years. But now, after a few centuries
of industrialization, global life expectancy is over 70 and is projected to reach 82 by 2100.
While this could result in a larger elderly population requiring more resources for care,
which some countries are currently experiencing,
advances in medical technology won’t just help people live longer lives, but healthier ones too.
The number of years a person is expected to live at full health, known as their
healthy life expectancy, has increased 8% in the last 20 years, from 58.3 to 63.7.
This means they will be able to stay in the workforce longer and
won’t require as much expensive medical or home care, which will
reduce the current burden the elderly place on social and healthcare systems.
In fact, scientists estimate that slowing the aging process and
increasing life expectancy by just 1 year could save the U.S. economy $38 trillion!
But as people continue to live longer, the world population is also increasing. This is
happening at a rate of around 82.4 million people a year and, by 2059, the population
is expected to continue growing gradually from today’s 8 billion to over 10 billion.
But by the end of the century, it will start going down.
That’s largely because fertility rates are decreasing due to advances in society,
such as women’s empowerment, lower child mortality, and the rising cost of raising
children. Countries like Japan and Korea have actually been incentivizing people to
have MORE babies, due to seriously declining birth rates and a rapidly aging population.
Still, 10 billion people is a lot of people! Where will we keep them?
What will they eat? I'm trying to bake as many pizza bagels as fast as i can. Okay?
Of the 149 million square-kilometers of land on Earth, 106 million are habitable. Currently,
you humans live on only about 1% of this habitable area,
so there’s plenty of room to expand, but you use another 46% of it for your food.
Luckily, farmers are already looking for more sustainable ways to make more food
with less land as an effort to curb climate change and feed the growing population.
And as they become more efficient, water availability will increase as well,
which is a good thing since parts of the world are already experiencing
water scarcity and more people will only exacerbate the issue.,
However, while we may soon have solutions for food and water deficits,
it’ll be up to us as a society to ensure that everyone gets them. WHICH THEY SHOULD!
it's a no-brainer! As grandma blocker would say, be nice.
so would you want to live in different places if you could live for a very long time where would
you go or would you just stay put where you are let me know in the comment section below
quick shout out to our friends over at vitadao. They actually sponsored this video,
and if you want to learn more about all the cool things they're doing for the longevity space,
click the first link in the description. Whether you're interested in science new
tech or just someone with a curious mind, don't miss the video we made with them
over on their channel! You can explore the groundbreaking work being done in this field.
it's a community where anyone can contribute and coordinate towards collective action.
click here to watch this video we did on what happens to your body at
different ages or click here to watch this video
and big shout out to lifespan, the team that powers Life Noggin,
check them out down in the description.
as always my name is blocko this has been life Noggin don't forget to keep on thinking