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Longevity will lead to Overpopulation

04-Jul-2015

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Article by Live Forever Club’s Adrian Cull considers 2 main strategies:

1. prevent the increase in population or

2. find somewhere for the ever growing mass of people to live.

For the 2nd option it was surprising to find that if the world spent 2% of GDP (similar to current defence spending) on space launches we could remove the 75 million people currently being born every year.

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Ray Kurzweil

Author, computer scientist, inventor and futurist

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Space Colonization