>if it were possible to live to 200 or 300, the population could get out of control pretty fast.
Seems unlikely.
Females generally decline in their ability to create children, males less so, but it is for sure a thing.
People might crank them out like crazy, as we currently do, and the people who don't die in war, accident, disease, or whatever else will just be out there. Hopefully they will also be out there bestowing their considerable wisdom upon their clan and humankind as a whole. One can dream.
>doctors [might not] if that person is of a certain age - because of the impact on the planet.
I don't think so. In this grisly, sort of insane scenario (we have plenty of those, thank you) it usually operates from the other chronological direction.
I was considering if people might wait longer if they had more time to live, but people really like to bang I've noticed. Seems quite unlikely for young adults to pass up. Nonetheless, I don't think it will cause an insane explosion beyond the geometric growth that this thing could do anyhow. However, consider the decline in birth rates of western countries, japan, and now china[0], the numbers simply don't substantiate this hypothesis. I don't know how the math works out wrt population growth, or why this is happening to advanced nations, but it seems like there is the possibility of numbers to plateau for some murky reason.
Plus, the best doctors are most likely gonna be old as hell or under the guidance of one who is. They might be able to see the utility.
FWIW, I think it is a reasonable, if malinformed, question.
Seems unlikely.
Females generally decline in their ability to create children, males less so, but it is for sure a thing.
People might crank them out like crazy, as we currently do, and the people who don't die in war, accident, disease, or whatever else will just be out there. Hopefully they will also be out there bestowing their considerable wisdom upon their clan and humankind as a whole. One can dream.
>doctors [might not] if that person is of a certain age - because of the impact on the planet.
I don't think so. In this grisly, sort of insane scenario (we have plenty of those, thank you) it usually operates from the other chronological direction.
I was considering if people might wait longer if they had more time to live, but people really like to bang I've noticed. Seems quite unlikely for young adults to pass up. Nonetheless, I don't think it will cause an insane explosion beyond the geometric growth that this thing could do anyhow. However, consider the decline in birth rates of western countries, japan, and now china[0], the numbers simply don't substantiate this hypothesis. I don't know how the math works out wrt population growth, or why this is happening to advanced nations, but it seems like there is the possibility of numbers to plateau for some murky reason.
Plus, the best doctors are most likely gonna be old as hell or under the guidance of one who is. They might be able to see the utility.
FWIW, I think it is a reasonable, if malinformed, question.
[0] - https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.CBRT.IN?location...