Believe it or not, we have an underpopulation problem to solve — and there’s good reason to believe aging isn’t inevitable.
In 2020, Massachusetts joined the list of 25 American states recording more deaths than births. In the same year, only two countries in the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development had a fertility rate of at least 2.1 children born per woman — which is needed to maintain population replacement.
If we solve aging, we may well solve our emerging underpopulation crisis.
And we have, I will suggest, an ethical imperative to do both — even though tackling aging itself as a medical problem remains a contrarian idea.
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