The novels Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson bring up this question and proposes an answer, offered here in a simple rot13.com cypher for those who haven’t read the books yet.
Gubfr jub erprvir gur ybatrivgl gerngzrag ner fgrevyvmrq ng gur fnzr gvzr.
That is not exactly a new idea, many stories have used that. And Harry Stine’s A Matter of Metalaw had that as an automatic consequence of the immortality treatments.
The novels Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson bring up this question and proposes an answer, offered here in a simple rot13.com cypher for those who haven’t read the books yet.
Gubfr jub erprvir gur ybatrivgl gerngzrag ner fgrevyvmrq ng gur fnzr gvzr.
In itself doesn’t help at all if people can reproduce before.
That is also addressed in the novels, something I might have added previously.
That is not exactly a new idea, many stories have used that. And Harry Stine’s A Matter of Metalaw had that as an automatic consequence of the immortality treatments.