Demographics

Longer healthy life is said to preserve wisdom and allow older people to mentor younger generations. Longer healthspan may be needed to sustain society. Fertility decline and environmental quality are treated as more pressing concerns than overpopulation. Longer healthy life is presented as unlikely to dramatically change population if current demographic trends continue. Malthusian catastrophe predictions are described as repeatedly overstated because technology expands carrying capacity. The article frames shrinking working-age populations and growing sick older populations as a major demographic problem.