The only remotely valid argument against life extension that I’ve ever heard is Malthusian. Resources are finite. Interplanetary exploration has fizzed out. At some point you’ll need to prohibit people from reproducing, because other people have been living too long.
That depends on how many children longer-lived people want to have (a point that was actually made in the programme). To get an initial idea, we might compare the number of children people have now with the number people had when life expectancy was much less than now. The problem, if such it be, is the opposite: fertility has been declining in the educated, prosperous West, not increasing in accordance with our greater healthy lifespan.
The only remotely valid argument against life extension that I’ve ever heard is Malthusian. Resources are finite. Interplanetary exploration has fizzed out. At some point you’ll need to prohibit people from reproducing, because other people have been living too long.
That depends on how many children longer-lived people want to have (a point that was actually made in the programme). To get an initial idea, we might compare the number of children people have now with the number people had when life expectancy was much less than now. The problem, if such it be, is the opposite: fertility has been declining in the educated, prosperous West, not increasing in accordance with our greater healthy lifespan.