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Interviewer: Let's just pick a number, for argument's sake. Let's say a life expectancy doubles, most people can live to 150 or so, some to 200. What sort of problems also arise from that though?
Dr. Park: Problems?
Interviewer: Well, overpopulation, food, I mean if, medical care. I mean are there issues that go along with that. I mean everyone wants to live longer but what sort of side effects come with that, do you think?
Dr. Park: You just have a lot of free time. As far at the Malthusian
Equation, like overpopulation and... I don't really think of it that way.
Let me put it this way, if you asked somebody, "How many plants can we plant?" we'll say "Well, it kind of depends how much sun there is."
So that's really the model we have to look for, and unfortunately, our
lives are so geared toward scarcity, paying taxes, rent that we parse out the universe in these very limited quantities. But you know, if we had a renewable energy from the sun, right, then that would free up a lot of people.
So, most people think of it as a bad thing, but I think really that there's no limit to how many of us could be on this planet as long as we all play well together...You know, share and work together.
Interviewer: So if we were able to increase life expectancy, would some of the things that we consider aging, the physical signs like the gray hair, the wrinkled skin and things like that. Would we be able to eliminate those things?
Dr. Park: Yes. Of course.
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If advances allow our life expectancy to double, would there be side effects? Dr. Ed Park discusses potential issues of overpopulation and other potential problems. He sees aging as something that may be drastically changed in the near future.
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