Shripad Tuljapurkar Quotations
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Billion Quotes
We studied different countries around the world that are representative of different situations and took a look at where they'd end up. One thing that happens right away, which nobody seems to have thought of, is that the total global population increases dramatically. From an original projection of 8 billion we end up topping out at 10 to 11 billion. In many countries, this would have an enormous, and not necessarily positive, impact. For example, the idea that China would go from 1.5 to 1.8 billion, just because of this, is a bit frightening.
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Believe Quotes
Some people believe we are on the brink of being able to extend human lifespan significantly, because we've got most of the technologies we need to do it. People are going to do things they didn't get round to in their working lives. Current institutions are really not equipped at the moment to deal with such long lives.