If we cured aging, where would we put all the people? This is probably the most common question I get asked, and I think the answer may surprise you. It certainly surprised me when I first crunched the numbers!
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Video chapters
00:00 The most common question
00:47 Why ‘overpopulation’ is racist
03:36 Net zero
04:36 Population projections
08:08 The feminist case for treating ageing
08:46 A plea to demographers
10:17 The other side of the balance sheet
13:09 Why a big population is a good thing
Sources and further reading
Calculations and sources for the CO₂ and land use statistics can be found at docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Fertility rate data via World Bank: data.worldbank.org/indicator/...
Calculations for the population of a world without ageing can be found at andrewsteele.co.uk/ageless/re... with the underlying code at github.com/ajsteele/ageless
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