Bill Gates made a convincing argument for why improving human health is money well spent, and won't lead to overpopulation, in his 2018 video "Does S… - David A. Sinclair

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Bill Gates made a convincing argument for why improving human health is money well spent, and won't lead to overpopulation, in his 2018 video "Does Saving More Lives Lead to Overpopulation?"56 The short answer is: No.
If we were to stop all deaths — every single one around the globe — right now, we would add about 150,000 people to our planet each day. That would be 55 million people each year. That might sound like a lot, but it would be less than a single percentage point. At that rate, we would add a billion people to our ranks every eighteen years, which is still considerably slower than the rate at which the last few billion people have come along and easily countered by the global decline in family sizes.
It's still an increase, but it's not the sort of exponential growth many people fret about when they first encounter the idea of slowing aging.
Recall, these calculations are what we'd face if we ended all deaths right away. And although I'm very optimistic about the prospects for prolonged vitality, I'm not that optimistic. I don't know any reputable scientist who is.

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And it is home to what is arguably the most prestigious national scientific association in the world, the Royal Society. Founded in the 1600s during the Age of Enlightenment and formerly headed by Australia's catalyst, the botanist Sir Joseph Banks, as well as such legendary minds as Sir Isaac Newton and Thomas Henry Huxley, the society's cheeky motto is a pretty good one to live by: "Nullius in Verba," it says underneath the society's coat of arms. That's Latin for "Take nobody's word for it."

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