Overpopulation, Longevity, & Cryonics

By: Kincade Honey

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INTRODUCTION

OVERPOPULATION

Fertility Rates
Food Shortages
Poverty
Living Space
Urbanization

LONGEVITY

Aging
Longevity Escape Velocity

CRYONICS

What is Cryonics
Cryonics Companies
Is Cryonics Feasible
How do I sign up?
Freezing Animals

OVERPOPULATION

Summary

Summary: Overpopulation will only be a problem if nothing is done to stop it, but ignoring it and claiming Longevity is causing overpopulation is not the answer. So what fixes overpopulation? Longer life spans, improving the quality of life, and reducing infant mortality. these things result in lower fertility rates and will eventually allow us to reach a replacement fertility rate of 2.1 children per woman. India does not have an overpopulation problem, and neither does China, it is actually the opposite look at the fertility rates

Introduction

You are not a bad person for wanting to live longer. It is not immoral or wrong. Wanting to be alive is the most natural thing there is. I have tremendous amounts of respect for those who put their efforts into preventing the inevitable while everyone else cowards to death. One tragedy that we have today is too many people choose the fake non-existent people of the future over the real alive people today. We have to fight to earn those problems in the future, otherwise, we will all be dead by the time we need to deal with them.

Overpopulation

First off, Increasing Life Expectancy is not causing overpopulation if anything it is helping solve the population problems we have today. The world would be much better with all those extra people making extra progress. Imagine how different the world would be today if we had 10x fewer people. Do you think we would be as developed as we are now? More people allow us to achieve Metcalfe's Law which states that

“a network’s impact is the square of the number of nodes in the network. For example, if a network has 10 nodes, its inherent value is 100 (10 * 10)”

“Saving lives doesn’t lead to overpopulation. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. Creating societies where people enjoy basic health, relative prosperity, fundamental equality, and access to contraceptives is the only way to secure a sustainable world.”

The saying goes “Development is the best contraceptive”.

The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs list 17 goals to help achieve Sustainable Development, and decreasing life expectancy is not on that list.

How do you reach a Sustainable population?

Good Health and Well-Being

Quality Education

Sustainable Cities and Communities

Can the carrying capacity of the Earth change? The answer, YES! Humans have the ability to makes changes to our environment that no other species has, the estimate carrying capacity of Earth has changed multiple times over the past 100

The idea of over population was first brought up in 1798 when Thomas Malthus an English cleric, scholar and influential economist in the fields of political economy and demography anonymously published a book titled “An Essay on the Principle of Population.”

“Malthus claimed that, if unchecked, the population of a nation or even the world would double every 25 years. He got this idea from Benjamin Franklin, who had estimated that 1 million American colonists, living in an abundant and healthy environment, would double to 2 million in 25 years. “Throughout all the northern colonies, the population was found to double itself in twenty-five years”.”

“He explained that, if unchecked, people breed “geometrically” (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, etc.). But, the production of food can only increase “arithmetically” (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc.). ”

“Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second. By that law of our nature which makes food necessary to the life of man, the effects of these two unequal powers must be kept equal. This implies a strong and constantly operating check on population from the difficulty of subsistence. This difficulty must fall somewhere”

Thomas came to the conclusion that “The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery and vice.”

fast forward to 1968 a book titled “The Population Bomb” was published and written by Stanford University Professor Paul R. Ehrlich and his wife, Anne Ehrlich.

FERTILITY RATES

Fertility rate is the amount of children on average women have. The truth is underpopulation is a real issue in many counties. The perfect fertility rate seems to be 2.1 children per female which allows a stable population to develop.

“Assuming there are no migration flows and that mortality rates remain unchanged, a total fertility rate of 2.1 children per woman generates broad stability of population: it is also referred to as the “replacement fertility rate”, as it ensures replacement of the woman and her partner with another 0.1 children per woman to counteract infant mortality.”

India one of the largest countries with a population of over 1 Billion people has a fertility rate of 2.2 kids per female. The global fertility rate is 2.5 & is as low as 1.1 in some countries. So, no India does not have a population problem. India is far from perfect with many issues but population is not one of them, and if you want to fix the real issues in these countries such as Infant Mortality, Poverty, and Food Shortages we need to look at true causes.

“The countries with the most deaths have among the fastest-growing populations in the world. This is because the women in these countries tend to have the most births, too. Scholars debate the precise reasons why, but the correlation between child death and birth rates is strong.”

This GIF demonstrates how as Life Expectancy increases the Fertility Rate Decreases.

China used to have a 1 child policy, which was switched to a 2 child policy and finally a 3 child policy but was officially ended in 2021.

“The reason China is doing this right now is because they have too many men, too many old people, and too few young people. They have this huge crushing demographic crisis as a result of the one-child policy. And if people don’t start having more children, they’re going to have a vastly diminished workforce to support a huge aging population.” China’s ratio is about five working adults to one retiree; the huge retiree community must be supported, and that will dampen future growth, according to Fong. Since the citizens of China are living longer and having fewer children, the growth of the population imbalance is expected to continue. A United Nations projection forecast that “China will lose 67 million working-age people by 2030, while simultaneously doubling the number of elderly.”

It is important that the population rate goes up and not down for multiple reasons. if no new babies were being born there would not be young people able to replace the current working population

China does not have enough young people to replace the working population

20 years later, China follows Japan

Shrinking population is a serious problem in Japan and now China 20 Years later. The two charts above show how important it is to have a sustainable population and how low fertility rates result in a diminishing working population.

Many countries have implemented a Baby Bonus program which incentives people to have births. The countries with the lowest fertility rates seem to pay the most

Every country pictured above has a Fertility rate ranging from 1.87 (France) to 1.34 (Luxembourg)

“Financial incentives for having children are increasingly appearing as a response to low birth rate numbers in places like Finland, Estonia, Italy, Japan, and Australia.”

FOOD SHORTAGES

One of the common issues cited for overpopulation is that there will not be enough food. However, there is plenty of food. In America, some farmers are actually paid not to farm because there is so much food and not enough places to store it.

“Paying farmers not to grow crops was a substitute for agricultural price support programs designed to ensure that farmers could always sell their crops for enough to support themselves. The price support program meant that farmers had to incur the expense of plowing their fields, fertilizing, irrigating, spraying, and harvesting them, and then selling their crops to the government, which stored them in silos until they either rotted or were consumed by rodents. It was much cheaper just to pay farmers not to grow the crops in the first place.”

The problem really lies within the infrastructure in these countries. The World Food Program lists the top causes of world hunger and overpopulation is not on that list.

Conflict
Extreme Weather
Gender Inequality
Food Waste
Poverty

“According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations the world produces more than 1 1/2 times enough food to feed everyone on the planet. That’s already enough to feed 10 billion people, the world’s 2050 projected population peak.”

The main cause of food shortages is and always has been conflict.

“Conflict continues to be the primary driver of acute food insecurity on the continent. Twelve out of the 15 African countries facing the greatest food insecurity presently are also experiencing conflict.”

African Countries experiencing conflict

Poverty

Poverty is linked to a high number of births per women

The United States Birth rate in 2017, by household income.

LIVING SPACE

Another issue commonly used for overpopulation is that there is not enough living space, this again is not true.

URBANIZATION

Urbanization plays a big role in showing how as the population increases it becomes better for everyone. Studies show that as the population increases the average quality of life increases in almost every way measurable from height, & happiness to life expectancy.

“rural compared to urban areas. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the 2016 official poverty rate in rural areas was almost 16 percent compared to just over 12 percent in urban areas.”

Urban cities allow people to form communities, assign jobs, and work together to innovate and create infrastructure.

Urbanization: Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad City

The sixth episode of PRI’s popular POP 101 series, this video takes a fresh, humorous approach to the demographic…www.youtube.com

LONGEVITY

Longevity is a human right.

How much longer can we live

Why does longevity make sense

Will I be Old Forever

What is Aging

CRYONICS

What Is Cryonics

How Much does it cost

is it actually feasible

Cryonics & Religions

Cryonics Process in Depth

What Is Cryonics

Cryonics is the practice of freezing dead people for a pro-longed period of time with the hopes of being able to bring them back to life in the future.

There are about 500 people currently frozen by companies like Alcor, Cryonics Institute, KrioRus & a few others.

Cryonics was first scientifically proposed by Robert Ettinger a professor from Michigan when he wrote "The Prospect of Immortality" (1962) but Ettinger had wondered about cryonics far before this. In 1948 Ettinger had published a short story titled "The Permanent Trump" The story talks about a method of putting people into "suspended animation" until medical science can restore their health. "Ettinger was particularly affected when he was 12 years old by a Neil R. Jones story, "The Jameson Satellite," which appeared in the July 1931 issue of Amazing Stories, in which one Professor Jameson had his corpse sent into earth orbit where (as the author mistakenly thought) it would remain preserved indefinitely at near absolute zero. And so it did, in the story, until millions of years later, when, with humanity extinct, a race of mechanical men with organic brains chanced upon it. They revived and repaired Jameson's brain, installed it in a mechanical body, and he became one of their company."

On January 12th, 1967 Dr. James H. Bedford became the first man to enter cryonic suspension, Bedford had kidney cancer which was untreatable at the time and he died at the age of 73. "Bedford left $100,000 to cryonics research in his will, but more than this amount was utilized by Bedford's wife and son in court, having to defend his will and his cryopreservation due to arguments created by other relatives." Bedfords body was preserved by Robert Prehoda (author of the 1969 book Suspended Animation), Dr. Dante Brunol (physician and biophysicist) and Robert Nelson (President of the Cryonics Society of California). Robert Nelson then wrote a about book Bedford titled "We Froze the First Man" . Nelson had revealed he initially kept Bedford's body frozen using blocks of dry ice in a garaged located in Topanga California while he was awaiting his cryonic capsule to be completed. Bedford's body was transported to Cryo-Care Equipment Corporation in Pheonix Arizona and numerous of other locations in the years to come until eventually he was brought to the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in 1982. On May 25th, 1991 a visual examination was performed on Bedford's body by Mike Darwin where “External visual examination discloses a well-developed, well nourished male who appears younger than his 73 years"

“I cannot describe the feeling of elation I had when I peeled back the sleeping bag that enclosed you and saw that you appeared intact and well cared for.” - Mike Darwin