Human life is valuable, but doesn’t last forever, but recently scientists have come up with ideas to prolong life. This would be good in some ways, but overall, life is something to be cherished, and should not last forever. In the article “Should We Live Forever?” by Justin O’Neill, it states, “If babies continue to be born but no one dies, population growth - already straining Earth’s resources - will accelerate. Providing food, water, shelter, and education will be a huge challenge.” We already have a population problem, as well as a natural resource depletion problem, and If we increase population, the natural resource depletion problem would become even worse than it is now. Also, if we lived forever, but still needed all these resources,
For many years it has been thought that the maximum human population would be determined by the amount of drinkable fresh water. Earth can only hold, manage, and support so many people. This is called carrying capacity. If we go over this carrying capacity it could cause worldwide issues with the environment along with many other issues. For example if the human population goes over the carrying capacity of the earth then problems like lack of clean drinkable water, lack of land that humans could live on or occupy, and lack of available jobs could become much more serious and have terrible effects on the system which everything works.
The article by Dennis Dimick brings up some very good points about the increasing population. He states that with our current population of 7 billion people, we currently do not have enough food to eat. With the population increasing day-by-day, we will face more shortage in the future. He also brings up the issue of natural resources. We are currently using so much natural resources that we will run out very soon. The use of natural resources tend to increase with increase in social standing (wealth).
In “A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality,” John Perry raises poignant questions concerning the relationship between one’s physical body and one’s soul. Well it is generally assumed that individuals have had the same soul since they were born, Perry suggests alternative concepts. This Philosopher proposes that our souls may not be fixed entities but rather, transient in nature, inhabiting bodies at various intervals.
The Future of life, written by Edward O. Wilson, developed a novel with a plethora of ideas, theories, and problems within in our world today. Wilson breaks down concepts into greater context which gives the reader in depth description to show the reader a better outlook on issues in our society today. The author lectures in chapter two, The Bottleneck on how and why the world is overpopulated. Wilson gives great insight, facts and solutions that will lead into what the future looks like for an overpopulated world. Wilson begins by opening chapter two with questions regarding the population shift around the world.
Edward O. Wilson in his book The Future of Life (2002) writes two bi oppositional passages that illustrate two extreme sides of an argument on environmentalism. Wilson writes both passages with the same rhetorical patterning and reasoning to show how these arguments are not productive, because all they are doing throughout these passages are attacking the other side through pointing out their wrongdoings. In both passages, there is a question of illegitimacy and skepticism brought into light. “The [environmental] wackos have a broad and mostly hidden agenda that always comes from the left … Their aim is to expand the government[.]” (7-10)
Since 1900 the life expectancy has doubled at over 70 years old and it is continually growing (Our World In Data 2016). Many people ask whether life expectancy would impact people by there being less availability to food on this over populated Earth. Estimators say that the overpopulation of Earth is on average 8 billion people. We are already at a population of 7.3 billion. This shows that Earth is only so big and we are quickly outgrowing it if something is not done. This is important because it shows how radical life extension could drastically affect the human population, maybe even over the Earth 's ability to
Thesis: The main idea in this chapter is trying to figure out where our souls go after we die.
The narrative of Adam and Eve has demonstrated itself deserving of being analyzed and destroyed into its center topics of Eros and Thanatos inside of the Oedipal conflict. The topics in the story are difficult to identify with as I nearly see two individuals that share the same wishes to challenge and be free. This record of the first father gives an incredible measure of understanding where people’s inclinations of disobedience started. Adam whom was the first man was produced using the dust making him a Thanatos animal. In this case of him being made from dust would make a line characterizing us as Thanatos and God, the law supplier, as Eros. As the story advances there are occasions that remain as an affirmation of the battle within God and the characteristic man, father and child, or Thanatos and Eros. The battles between these two have a large significance within the Oedipal conflict. Just by knowing this it makes the narrative of Adam and Eve have a touch of a psychoanalytic gleam.
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The fountain of youth has so far remained elusive to humanity, but modern scientific innovations have opened the door for realistic immortality, or at least a far extended lifespan. However, the means to create immortal people is burdened with moral and ethical controversy - do we want to be immortal? Humanity has much to gain from researching the extension of human life, but should work under limitations because although it offers people the chance to live healthier lives, the boundaries of social morality begin to fracture once immortality becomes possible.
In “Is It Unjust to Develop Life Extension if It Will Not Be Possible to Provide It to Everyone?”, John Davis argues on the fact on whether or not we should develop life extension if it won’t bet fairly distributed amongst our society. Davis believes that the rich will most likely have access to life extension before the poor, which creates the issue of unequal access to life extension. In this essay, I will be siding with Davis’ argument, as there should be no reason to develop and research life extension if we cannot make it available to everyone at once.
What if you could live forever? Immortality comes with a price, you have to trade life with your lover.
When you consider population and resources, I think of it as a supply and demand. With all this demand because of the increase in population there is an extreme chance that the supply will diminish. I fully believe that the greatest threat to the world over the next fifty years is the fact that human population is estimated to increase 2.3 billion people by 2050. This statistic is not a good one because we are already having issues controlling the pollution that is happening to our environment and the ozone layer thinning. We are destroying our world and the environment within.
It is predicted by the year 2050 the world's population will have increased to over 9 billion people. (International...) If this prediction comes true the world will become overpopulated and cause problems like famine, the world already struggles with feeding the amount of people alive today. A second problem is housing, in underdeveloped countries there is already a struggle with giving people places to live, so companies clear land to build houses but that leads to habitat loss and animal loss. The third reason is disease, if a disease was started and spread when the world was overpopulated the disease could eliminate half of the human population.
One of the problems facing our world is population. It began about ten thousand years ago when the humans settled and began farming. The farming provides more food for the people thus making the population grow. Now we are about 6 billion in population and in a few years we will be around 10 to 11 billion. Therefore, our population will