Scientists should concentrate on providing us solutions to our many problems, especially those with mind blowing consequences

BY STEVEN KASZAB

According to the Economist, our scientific community has been studying processes that will slow our human aging. Serious research indeed. “Humanity has had the fear of death upon them for far too long and providing a solution to humanity’s dilemma seems far,” said Dr. Caroline Hope of the United Nations Library/Scientific division.

Money is rolling in from all avenues to study, research and begin human trials directed by governments, corporations and agencies. The United Nations estimate that costs of these trials will amount to over a trillion dollars by 2050. The corporation that finds, develops the masterful pill that can end in some way the fear of aging will become the most prestigious and wealth corporation on the planet. The marketplace for such drugs will be massive, with all the socio-political influence that would go with it.

The World Economic Forum believes by 2060 there will be more 40-year-olds on the planet than 15-year-olds. Corporations are studying this eventuality examining certain points of interest like.

• Hiring retired workers to become trainers
• Redefining the corporate ladder
• Designing products with older consumers in mind
• Recruiting older workers and making benefits work for them
• Communicate with the elderly without preaching

Entirely new industries and the expansion of many will happen, as the elderly will no longer go off to the pastures in retirement, or be unwanted, but society finds a constructive and useful place for them. Less young people, more active elderly seem to create a problem that needs to be looked at.

Our planet’s population will continue to grow, since elderly people still have sex and have children. Wondering how this longevity of life and sexuality/childbirth will work out? The earth can only house so many people, and if many are energetic elders, how will the planet’s leaders save the planet while allowing most people to live reasonable lives?

Science Fiction presented many methods, such as in the movie Soylent Green where procedures were demanding to control the population. Unruly poor folk were arrested in masses and taken away to be killed and turned into a protein source named Soylent Green. Elderly were required at a certain age to go to pleasure dooms, to end their lives in pleasurable ways. Human bodies were no longer buried, but sent for disposal, and actually turned into fertilizer.

Think about the situation at hand if science makes the breakthrough it needs to end or control aging. Less people are dying while the population continues to grow. Not a very good equation for anyone, except perhaps the wealthy among us.

Imagine what the price tag will be for the aging process to end? Whether a procedure or a pill, it will only be available for the wealthy, powerful and those who protect them. Why am I so negative? Well, I look at all things not wearing rose-coloured glasses. I am hopeful for humanity, but if I was a gambler, I’d never bet our leaders would do what is right, but only what benefits them.

So, Big Pharma continues studying how to make gold from pills, the leadership of our world ignores the oncoming horror show that has started with population overloading, our economies and will continue until decisions will have to be made with questions like “live and let live, or live and let die” asked of our fellow citizens?

The problem of overpopulation may very well turn our governments into death dealers who of course will pass these decisions onto our healthcare providers, having to decide triage style who will cost too much to help, who is too sick, and who can be saved. From there our government will make self and planned euthanasia easier to achieve. Perhaps our borders will close to keep out those globally poor and destitute future candidates for Soylent Green processes. We already have wholesale slaughter and organ harvesting believed to be going on in China and Asia proper. These ideas are not far-fetched at all.

Will our scientific community suggest mass sterilization as an option? We do it to cats and dogs! The horrors of the Nazi’s return as a possible master race upheld by their wealth rule over us. A racial/financial reversal happens where former colonial peoples outnumber their former rulers.

Our earth is overpopulated now, where entire communities cannot feed their citizens properly. We are running out of space to bury our dead, care for our ill and dementia-stricken populations. We try to help the homeless, nationless, poverty-stricken hoard, but the band aids we apply annually fall off their multiple wounds. Millions are homeless, encamped and being radicalized. It is as it has been for a long time, just getting worse with the passage of time.

“Cancer is nothing more than a healthy cell that starts replicating itself uncontrollably,” A writer, one Dan Brown said. If you consider overpopulation likened to that uncontrollable replicating cell, you realize what needs to be done. Cancer is treated, and often cut out of the body before it has progressed too far. Has our earth gone too far?

Instead of making our lives longer, perhaps scientists could concentrate on providing us solutions to our many problems, especially those with mind blowing consequences.