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To: tet68
If not as many people die, where do you put them all.

The reason there are 7 billion (or whatever) people on earth now is that better medicine extends the lifespan, and the fertility rate has not dropped accordingly. Most especially, the effect occurs because children who, in previous eras, would have died before the age of 5 now survive into adulthood and then have children.

I do not think that preventing immune system aging would have that much of an effect, because the people whose lifespans would be increased are already beyond reproductive age, since the immune system starts its major decline after age 65.

9 posted on 01/16/2016 10:20:36 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: exDemMom

God has numbered man’s years to 120. It won’t matter what anyone does.


11 posted on 01/16/2016 10:26:06 AM PST by Bulwyf
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