Dr. Ed Park: Potential Issues With Increased Longevity (iHealthTube)

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Dr. Ed Park: Potential Issues With Increased Longevity (iHealthTube)
YouTube video by Dr. Ed Park (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaFWOqlUcCI). Transcript is the auto-caption track — verbatim ASR, not a certified transcript.

let's just pick a number for argument sake let's say a life expectancy doubles most people can live till 150 or so uh some to 200 what sort of problems also arise from that though um problems well overpopulation food I mean if you know medical care I mean are there other issues that go along with that I mean everybody wants to live longer but what sort of side effects come with that do you time as as far as the malthusian equation like overpopulation and um I don't really think of it that way I think that um or put this way if you ask somebody how many plants can we plant we'll say Well it kind of depends on how much sun there is so that's really the model we have to look for and unfortunately our lives are so geared towards scarcity paying taxes rent that we parse out the universe in these very limited quantities but you know if we had a renewable energy from the sun right then that would free up a lot of people so most people think of it as a bad thing but um really I think that there's no limit to how many of us could be on this planet as long as we all play well together you know share and um work together so if we were able to increase life expectancy would some of the things that we consider aging the physical signs like the gray hair the wrinkled skin things like that would we be able