The Population Implosion Will Force BioTech Innovation

Both life and health spans can be dramatically increased over the next several decades. And they're going to need to be.

by Patrick Cox
July 14, 2017

Last year, we began to see articles in the press conceding that overpopulation wasn’t going to end civilization. This year, we’re seeing reports on the real population problems—depopulation and aging.

For example, The Washington Post published an article titled, “The U.S. fertility rate just hit a historic low. Why some demographers are freaking out.” Freaking out, by the way, is not an exaggeration.

Here’s the first paragraph:

The United States is in the midst of what some worry is a baby crisis. The number of women giving birth has been declining for years and just hit a historic low. If the trend continues—and experts disagree on whether it will—the country could face economic and cultural turmoil.

This is quite a change from pieces published in the same newspaper in the 1980s. Here is the lead from an older article titled, “Global Overpopulation.”

In the face of overwhelming evidence that there is no way of fighting poverty in the Third World without more ext…