Lower Death Rate
Not only the bad can emerge from this issue; as technology consumes these places, people that would never have seen the inside of a hospital now have a chance to. Whether or not it’s decided if the rise in technology is good or bad, some advantages follow close behind. People will gain the chance to be cured of sicknesses that before would mean certain death. People that lay immobile now have the chance to seek help and needed care.
Although it is great that these people have the chance to stay healthy, they become yet more mouths that must be fed. With the death rate lower and the birth rate still increasing, the population sees the direct result of that and affects the world as well. All of the consequences of overpopulation are directly fed by this. The decrease in death rate can be a deadly imbalance that continues to eat away at the world we know. It is an unavoidable imbalance that comes with the great increase in numbers.
While never before has the population been growing as rapidly as it is today. People continue to live longer and stronger. We have even become able to harvestw organs or replace them with artificial ones. These solve issues that would once have meant certain death. Is this really a good thing? We in a sense are disturbing nature’s natural selection. We cheat death and survive beyond our natural given potential. In China, in 1950 the life expectancy was 35 years; in 2000 it rose to 71 years.
That’s a 57% improvement directly due to the improvement in health care. The current world average life expectancy is 66 years, which is huge compared to the 19th century European average of 34 years. But is this good when considering the stresses that it puts on us as a social ecosystem? We, like the earth, have needs as well. Does this increase in population allow the current social systems to still function properly? Or will this eventually cripple them and leave us striving for a life-saving answer?
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