(October 16, 2011 at 11:02 pm)I_Blaspheme Wrote:(October 16, 2011 at 9:54 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: In fact, I actually read an article for a college class which talked about how, if there was going to be an increase in the maximum age that humans could live to, things would be a whole lot worse; there'd be overpopulation and most developed nations would become gerontocratic plutocracies. I should probably search in my personal archives to see if I can find it.
Makes sense. Given the state of world population growth today, our birth rates and longevity don't make for a sustainable population.
In the year I was born (1967) there were approximately 3.45 billion people on Earth. Today, there are at least double that.
I have serious doubts that our biosphere can sustain another doubling of population. My personal contribution to population reduction was to only have one child. My brother and sister chose to have none, though for other reasons.
If it makes you feel any better, UN projections are that our population will not double again, but peak at around 9 billion half way through this century and very slowly go into decline.
