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re: How much innovation have we lost due to legal abortion?

Posted on 5/20/14 at 7:47 pm to
Posted by Roger Klarvin
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Member since Nov 2012
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Posted on 5/20/14 at 7:47 pm to
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i doubt you're an idiot




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i'd like to know why you think that


Some pretty advanced calculations have been done on this, anticipating the effects on population if certain causes of death plummeted or were eliminated.

Cancer kills about 9 million people in the world annually and single handidly drops the average lifespan across the globe by over 5 years. If eliminated cancer, the world's population would double roughly every 25 years.

At our current rate, the population will be between 13 to 16 billion by 2100. Taking cancer out of the equation, that number balloons to around 60 billion.

This planet cannot currently sustain anywhere close to that number of people.
Posted by tiderider
Member since Nov 2012
7703 posts
Posted on 5/20/14 at 9:39 pm to
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Roger Klarvin
How much innovation have we lost due to legal abortion?
quote:
i doubt you're an idiot




quote:
i'd like to know why you think that


Some pretty advanced calculations have been done on this, anticipating the effects on population if certain causes of death plummeted or were eliminated.

Cancer kills about 9 million people in the world annually and single handidly drops the average lifespan across the globe by over 5 years. If eliminated cancer, the world's population would double roughly every 25 years.

At our current rate, the population will be between 13 to 16 billion by 2100. Taking cancer out of the equation, that number balloons to around 60 billion.

This planet cannot currently sustain anywhere close to that number of people.



fair enough ... tho, it's a rather callous argument to be made against cancer prevention (not accusing you of explicitly stating that) ... humans will eventually over-populate, with or without diseases ...
Posted by mmcgrath
Indianapolis
Member since Feb 2010
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Posted on 5/20/14 at 11:04 pm to
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Cancer kills about 9 million people in the world annually and single handidly drops the average lifespan across the globe by over 5 years. If eliminated cancer, the world's population would double roughly every 25 years.
I would like a link to those "advanced calculations". I think that the lack of cancer would lead to other illnesses later in life which would have to be considered, as well as increased fatalities and other Darwin and physiological considerations with a larger population and limited resources.
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