When I read sentences like this, I wonder whether environmental issues have been taken into account.
"A newborn in the UK today has a 50% chance of living to 105."
Is that 50% with or without 4C of global heating?
"A newborn in the UK today has a 50% chance of living to 105."
Is that 50% with or without 4C of global heating?
Not to mention the social realities.
There's a blinkered narrative that extrapolates current medi-tech advances into the future, and assumes they translate into rising life expectancy, regardless of the social and environmental forces in the real world.
theguardian.com/society/2020/f…
There's a blinkered narrative that extrapolates current medi-tech advances into the future, and assumes they translate into rising life expectancy, regardless of the social and environmental forces in the real world.
theguardian.com/society/2020/f…
For life expectancy to keep rising, as some scientists assume, we would need not just better medicine.
We'd need:
- a habitable planet
- a good distribution of wealth
- good and improving nutrition
- and the belief that there will still be some bloody point to living that long
We'd need:
- a habitable planet
- a good distribution of wealth
- good and improving nutrition
- and the belief that there will still be some bloody point to living that long
