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by maxander
3698 days ago
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If you want to die to assist the population-control efforts, be my guest. : ) More seriously, what would happen if the average number of children per family was 3.5, rather than 2.5 [1]? Probably nothing absolutely catastrophic, and that's roughly what would happen in a pessimistic scenario of an ageless society- instead of simply generating a batch of new people that will later reproduce, there's a batch of new people and the original parent. Maybe some outliers will just keep having children constantly (until they just physically give out- that would be an extreme strain), but I'd think most people would allow a decade or two between families. More more seriously, birth rates are declining drastically in highly developed countries, to the point that many places are worried about population decline. Overpopulation is a problem in developing nations, but realistically, anti-aging won't make a big difference there- they're already typically dying of more preventable things than old age. [1] Source; that old apocryphal statistic we all know from the 90s or something. Its probably different now, but I'm too lazy to look it up. |
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