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From: Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Have you considered the possibility that life expectancy in
> India vs. U.S. is possibly related to CRUSHING POVERTY ?
Yup. Poverty sucks. Overpopulation --> poverty --> misery.
Why overpopulation? Over the past 100-150 years we've seen
the rise of modern medicine and SANITATION, which have had a
tremendous impact on human populations. The worldwide life-
expectancy averaged around 39 years in pre-modern times, and
about 90% of everyone born died in childhood. Sanitation
and basic medicine [antibiotics etc] changed that, cutting
infant mortality rates down to 1%-10% - but impoverished and
traditional cultures maintained high birth rates, leading to
vast population increases. Wealthier and less tradition-bound
societies cut their birthrates - indeed, birthrates worldwide
are dropping sharply, but they probably won't stabilize at
replacement levels for another 100-150 years,say demographers.
Ever-rising populations in poor countries produces increasing
poverty, with fewer resources available for advanced medicine,
for investment in infrastructure, for upgrading lifestyles. So
the poor and traditional will continue subjecting themselves to
ineffective medical practices, 'cause those are all that are
available. And romantics in more developed countries will use
'traditional' medicines 'cause such are cute'n'cozy. If your
favorite homeopathic preparation doesn't kill you, you'll sing
its praises - if it DOES kill you, you won't be around to bitch
about it. This is called a "self-selecting sample," eh?
Things will get strange in upcoming decades. Folks with access
to advanced medical technology will get healthier, will have
themselves and their offspring gene-modified to live a LONG
time. People without access to such technologies will continue
to die young, despairing, ground to a pulp. But 'enhanced'
humans will also shop for homeopathic/traditional remedies for
their real and perceived ailments - and since they'll be quite
healthy, the bogus preparations won't kill them as quickly, and
they'll sing the praises of the goo, and live on happily. Yow.
If a few years, you'll have chips implanted in your body, if
you can afford them. They'll monitor/regulate your physiological
functioning, report on you to a central database, automagically
mediate your economic/physical/medical activities. You will
lose privacy. You will gain time, value, contacts. You may or
may not have the option to select these implants, depending on
where you live, on who your insurer/HMO/bank/govt are. Folk with
such implants will live longer, will have more economic/political
control, will be significant. And people without such implants,
probably won't. Poor people around the world will likely do all
they can to gain such implants. Illegal immigration will reach
new levels. Phony implants will be a black-market boom. To be
fully human, you'll necessarily be fully wired. Watch it happen.
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