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Longer human lifespans would be incredibly destructive for Earth. We need to expand beyond the Earth before messing with that stuff...
by bluescrn 7y ago
Longer human lifespans would be incredibly destructive for Earth.
We need to expand beyond the Earth before messing with that stuff...
- waterhouse 7y agoHow to manage birth rates may indeed become a difficult political issue with extended lifespans. But in purely economic terms, if you could get another 40-50 years of healthy productive career out of the same human instead of having another one spend 18-26 years growing and getting expensive education and then also needing a lot of extra healthcare in the later years, then that would be an excellent efficiency improvement. Also, if individual humans routinely expect to live >100 years, then that gives them a stronger incentive to avoid choices that have a long-term negative impact.