{"id":124834,"date":"2021-07-12T09:22:38","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T16:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/5-sustainable-eating-tips-for-people-serious-about-life-extension"},"modified":"2021-07-12T09:22:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T16:22:38","slug":"5-sustainable-eating-tips-for-people-serious-about-life-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/5-sustainable-eating-tips-for-people-serious-about-life-extension","title":{"rendered":"5 Sustainable Eating Tips for People Serious About Life Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/5-sustainable-eating-tips-for-people-serious-about-life-extension.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A serving of mushrooms is just 0.08 kg of CO2 emissions\u2014only lentils have a lower per serving CO2 emission level.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>One common question J.P. and I get over and over again is about the problem of overpopulation\u2014if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longevityadvice.com\/human-life-extension\/\">human life extension<\/a> is a humanitarian goal worth pursuing, won\u2019t there be an inevitable environmental crisis? One worse than what we\u2019re already facing?<\/p>\n<p>When we covered the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longevityadvice.com\/ethics-life-extension\/\">ethics of life extension<\/a> we partially answered this question based on what we know about population and consumption trends now (tl;dr: we\u2019re more likely to face a crisis of <em>under <\/em>population than overpopulation). That said, it\u2019s practically impossible to be able to fully forecast environmental trends 50200, and further years into the future. We noted, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.longevityadvice.com\/what-is-a-spanner\/\">Spanners<\/a> actually need to address it because we will have to continue living through the consequences of climate change if we don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, if you\u2019re interested in indefinitely extending your own life, sustainable eating should be a priority today because you\u2019ll most likely be alive in the trash-filled, resource-scarce world of tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A serving of mushrooms is just 0.08 kg of CO2 emissions\u2014only lentils have a lower per serving CO2 emission level. One common question J.P. and I get over and over again is about the problem of overpopulation\u2014if human life extension is a humanitarian goal worth pursuing, won\u2019t there be an inevitable environmental crisis? One worse [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":622,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,30,269,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-ethics","category-life-extension","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}