{"id":94476,"date":"2019-08-05T12:42:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T19:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/population-prospects-2019-and-life-extension"},"modified":"2019-08-05T12:42:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T19:42:25","slug":"population-prospects-2019-and-life-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/population-prospects-2019-and-life-extension","title":{"rendered":"Population Prospects 2019 and Life Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/population-prospects-2019-and-life-extension.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A common concern about life extension is overpopulation, the idea that there are too many people in the world. Are we really headed for a global overpopulation meltdown, as some people believe? The United Nations\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/population.un.org\/wpp\/Publications\/Files\/WPP2019_Highlights.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Population Prospects 2019<\/a> report suggests that while the global population will continue to rise for the next few decades, ultimately, that rise will plateau.<\/p>\n<p><strong>First things first: it\u2019s population growth, not overpopulation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whenever the topic of defeating age-related diseases comes up, there is inevitably someone who will cite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/overpopulation\/\">overpopulation as an objection to healthy life extension<\/a> and a reason why we should continue to let people become sick and die of diseases that science may be able to cure in the coming decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A common concern about life extension is overpopulation, the idea that there are too many people in the world. Are we really headed for a global overpopulation meltdown, as some people believe? The United Nations\u2019 World Population Prospects 2019 report suggests that while the global population will continue to rise for the next few decades, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94476","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\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}